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wards believing that it may rain Calves alfo, for 

 we read that one fell out of the Clouds in Avicens 

 Time ; nor do they much help the matter, who 

 fay, that thofe Frogs that appear fometimes in 

 great Multitudes after a Shower, are not indeed 

 engendered in the Clouds, but coagulated of a 

 certain fort of Duft commix'd and fermented 

 with Rain- Water -, to which Hypothefis Fromon- 

 dus adheres. 



But let us a little confider the Generation of 

 Frogs in a natural way. i. There are two diffe- 

 rent Sexes, which muft concur to their Genera- 

 tion. 2. There is in both a great Apparatus of 

 fpermatick VefTels, wherein the nobler and more 

 fpirituous Part of the Blood is by many Dige- 

 ilions, Concoftions, Refledions and Circulations 

 exalted into that generous Liquor we call Sperm ; 

 and likewife for the preparing of the Eggs. 3. 

 There muft be a Copulation of the Sexes, which 

 I rather mention becaufe it is the moft remarka- 

 ble in this that ever I obferv'd in any Animal ; for 

 they continue in complexu venereo at leaft a Month 

 indefinitely, the Male all that while refling on 

 the Back of the Female, clipping and embracing 

 her with his Legs about the Neck and Body, and 

 holding her fo faft, that if you take him out of 

 the Water he will rather bear her whole Weight 

 than let her go -, this I obferv'd in a Couple kept 

 on purpofe in a VeiTel'of Water by riiy learned 

 and worthy Friend Mr. John Nid, Fellow of 

 trinity 'College J long fince deceas'd 3 after this the 

 Spawn muft be caft into Water, where the Eggs 



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