292 T^he Wisdom of GOD Part IL 



Thofe Parts which one would think were of 

 little Ufe in the Body, ferving chiefly to fill up 

 empty Spaces, as the Fat^ if examined ftridly, 

 will be found very beneficial and ferviceable to it. 

 I. To cherifh and keep it warm, by hindring the 

 Evaporation of the hot Steams of Blood; as 

 Cloaths keep us warm in Winter, by refleding 

 and doubling the Heat. 2. To nourifli and main- 

 tain the Body for fome time when Food is want- 

 ing, ferving as Fuel to preferve and continue the 

 natural Heat of Blood, which requires an oily or 

 iulphurous Pabulum as well as Fire. Hence upon 

 long Abftinence and fafting the Body grows lean. 

 Hence alfo fome Beafts, as the Marmotto^ or Mus 

 AlpinuSy a Creature as big or bigger than a Rabbet y 

 which abfconds all Winter, doth (as Hildanus tells 

 us) live upon its own Fat -, for in the Autumn^ 

 when it fhuts itfelf up in its Hole (which it digs 

 with its Feet like a Rabbet, making a Neft with 

 Hay or Straw to lodge itfelf warm) it is very fat; 

 [Hildanus took out above a Pound and a half of 

 Fat between the Skin and Mufcles, and a Pound 

 out of the Abdome}i\ but on the contrary, in the 

 Spring-time, when it comes forth again, very lean, 

 as the Hunters experience in thofe they then take. 

 3. The internal Fat ferves for the Defence and 

 Security of the Veffels, that they might lie foft, 

 and be fafely convey'd in their Paffage, wherefore 

 it is efpecially gathered about them. 



By what Pores, or Pafiages, or Veffels, the Fat 



is feparated from the Blood when it is redundant, 



I and 



