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be ; and that the Hee and the She 

 Ee/e may be diftinguifhed by their 

 fins. 



And others fay, that Ee/es grow- 

 ing old, breed other Ee/es out of the 

 corruption of their own age, which 

 Sir Francis Bacon fayes, exceeds 

 not ten years. And others fay,that 

 Ee/es are bred of a particular dew 

 falling in the Months of May or June 

 on the banks of fome particular 

 Ponds or Rivers ( apted by nature 

 for that end) which in a few dayes 

 is by the Suns heat turned into Ee/es. 

 I have feenin the beginning of July, 

 in a River not far from Canterbury, 

 fome parts of it covered over with 

 young Ee/es about the thicknefs of a 

 ftraw; and thefe Ee/es did lye on the 

 top of that water, as thick as motes 

 are faid to be in the Sun ; and I have 

 heard the like of other Rivers, as 

 namely,in Severn, and in a pond or 

 Mere in Staff or d-fhlre, where about 

 a fet time in Summer, fuch fmall 



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