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the fkin is drawn together like apurfe,and the/tfmclofed up^ the 

 hair comes conftantly white : thus the fubtile Veterinarians pro-^ 

 cure white /Jars, or other defired marks in the fore-heads of their 

 horfes ; and I have feen the fkins of black Grey-hounds powder- 

 ed with white, or made Ermynefs, by applying wood-ticks to their 

 (kins when young, both which are performed alfo by cicatrization, 

 and clofingthe/ww of the (kin, thereby hindering the exhalati^ 

 on of the Sulphur in thofe parts. 



15. Which will further appear from an obfervation of my 

 Lord Verulam's concerning Flowers, whereof the whites for the 

 moft part are^more inodorate than other colours : And this he 

 makes out in many Flowers, as fingle white Violets, the white Rofe, 

 white July-flowers, (src. We find alfo, fays he, that bloifoms of 

 Trees that are white are commonly inodorate ; as of Cherry, Pear, 

 and Plum-trees: whereas thofe of Apple, Crab, Almond, and 

 Peach-trees, are bluftiy, and fmell fweet. The caufe whereof is, 

 that the texture of thefe Plants producing white Flowers (ex- 

 cepting fuch as produce white Flowers only, as Lillies * or are 

 extravagantly fucculent,as the white Satyrion) is fo very clofc and 

 fine, that it will not permit any fulphureom particles, which are 

 alfo the caufe of fmell 's r as well as colours, in any meafure to ex- 

 bale. Which poffibly may be found true, if duly examined, iri 

 all forts of Animals ; and if fo, we hereby may be profitably in- 

 ftructed what Beaffs of each kind are leaft offenfive, and fitteft for 

 theconverfation of men ox women, efpecially Ladies, who com- 

 monly have great fagacity in fmelling, may hereby be directed in 

 the choice of their Melitdti or Lap-dogs:. 



16. As for pyed Birds that are generally of another colour, 

 fuch zspyed Phefants, &c. the cafe iseafier, for fuch are produced 

 either by common colour 'd Hens troden by a white Cockrphefant, 

 or viceverfa ; which poffibly may have happened alfo by our white 

 Linnet whether male or female, or in any other Birds of any o- 

 ther (pedes, as we fee it falls out in Dogs and Horfes, and moft 

 other Animals. 



1 7. And this had been all concerning Birds, but that at Wit- 

 ney, Anno 1674. I met with an Egg about the bignefs of a Pid- 

 geons, containing another imperfect one in it, given me by Mr. 

 Hinton the then Minifter there, which feems to have been in the 

 way toward fuch an Ovum in Ovo as is mentioned by the Learn- 



' Idem in loco citato- 



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