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whereof was provided with its excretory VefTel, 

 out of which, by an eafy PrcfTure, you might 

 fqueeze a Juice or Pap, which ferved for the 

 fame Ufe which the Saliva doth in Quadrupeds, 

 that is, for the macerating and diflblution of the 

 Meat into a Chyle 5 for that the Saliva^ not- 

 withftanding its Infipidnefs, hath a notable Vir- 

 tue of macerating and difTolving Bodies, appears 

 by the Effefts it hath in killing of Quickfilver, 

 fermenting of Dough like Leaven or Yeaft , ta- 

 king away Warts, and curing other cutaneous 

 Diftempers; fometimcs exulcerating the Jaws, 

 and rotting the Teeth. 



Give me leave to add one Particular more con- 

 cerning Birds, which fome may perchance think 

 too homely and indecent to be mentioned in 

 fuch a Difcourfe as this; yet becaufe it is not 

 belov^ the Providence of Nature, and defign'd 

 for Cleanlinefs, and fome great Men have 

 thought it worth the obferving, I need not to be 

 afham'd to take notice of it; that is, that in 

 young Birds that are fed in the Neft, the Excre- 

 ment that is voided at one time is fo vifcid, that 

 it hangs together in a great Lump, as if it were 

 inclofed in a Film, fo that it may eafily be taken 

 up and carried away by the old Bird in her Bill; 

 befides, by a ftrange Inftinfl: the young Bird ele- 

 vates her hinder Parts fo high, for the moft part, 

 that (he feldom fails to caft what comes from 

 her elear over the fide of the Neft ; fo we fee 

 here is a double Provifion made to keep the Neft: 

 clean J v/hich, if it were defiled with Ordure, 



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