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mers'd in the Spirit of Wine, and confequently 

 was not the Hexapod of a Beetle, but an Eruca^ 

 like to, or indeed fpecifically the fame with that 

 of our own Country by me obferv*d ; and being 

 eaten at this Day by the Inhabitants of Jamaica^ 

 is in all likelihood the fame with the Cojjus of the 

 ^ntient Romans^ which was fed for the Table, as 

 Fliny affures us ; efpecialJy if we confider, that 

 Dr. Lijler found this Eruca in the Body of an 

 Oak newly cut down and faw'd in pieces j on 

 which Tree Pliny faith they feed. Thus much 

 I thought fit to add . to Dr. Lijier^ and do the 

 Truth right, by retracing my former Conjedure 

 concerning the CoJJu 



3. My third Argument againft fpontaneous 

 Generation is, becaufe there are no Arguments or 

 Experiments which the Patrons of it do or can 

 produce which do clearly evince it. For the ge- 

 neral and vulgar Opinion, that the Heads of Chil- 

 dren, or the Bodies of thofe that do not change 

 their Linnen, but wear that which is fweaty and 

 fordid, breeds Lice 5 or that Cheefe of itfelf breeds 

 Mites or Maggots ; I deny, and look upon it as a 

 great Error and Miftakej and do affirm, that all 

 fuch Creatures are bred of Eggs laid in fuch for- 

 did Places by fome wandring Loufe, or Mite, or 

 Maggot ; for fuch Places being moft proper for 

 the hatching and exclufion of their Eggs, and 

 for the Maintenance of their Young, Nature hath 

 endued them with a wonderful Acutenefs of 

 Scent and Sagacity, whereby they can, tho' far 

 2 diftant^ 



