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tho' hatched and led by a Hen, if fhe brings them 

 to the Brink of a River or Pond of Water, they 

 prefently leave her, and in they go, though they 

 never faw any fuch thing done before, and tho' 

 the Hen clucks and calls, and doth what Ihe can 

 to keep them out. This Pliny takes notice of, 

 Hijt, Nat, lib, 10. cap, 55. in thefe Words, fpeak- 

 ing of Hens : Super omnia eft Anatum Ovis fub^ 

 d'ltis atqiie exclufis admiratio^ pri?no no7i plane ag- 

 nofcentis fcetum : mox iucertos incubitus Jbllicite 

 ^onvocantis : Pojlremo I amenta circa pifcince Jlag- 

 na^ mergentibiis fe ptdlis naturd duce. So that we 

 fee every Part in Animals is fitted to its Ufe, and 

 the Knowledge of this Ufe put into them : For 

 neither do any Sort of Web-footed Fowls live 

 confl:antly upon the Land, or fear to enter the 

 Water, nor any Land-Fowl fo much as attempt 

 to fwim there. 6. Birds of the fame Kind make 

 their Nefts of the fame Material, laid in the 

 fame Order, and exadty of the fame Figure ; fo 

 that by the fight of the Neft one may certainly 

 know what Bird it belongs to -, and this they do 

 tho'- living in diftant Countries, and though they 

 never faw nor could fee any Neft made, that is, 

 though taken out of the Neft and brought up by 

 Hand ; neither were any of the fame Kind ever 

 obferv'd to make a different Neft, either for 

 Matter or Fafhion : This, together with the cu- 

 rious and artificial Contexture of fuch Nefts, and 

 their Fitnefs and Conveniencie for the Reception, 

 hatching and cherifhing the E^^i and Toufig oi 

 their refpedive Builders (which we have before 



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