:j 1 4 "The Wisdom of GOD Part II. 



the extreme Cold of the middle Region of the 

 Air, where the Vapours are turn'd into Clouds, 

 which is not at all propitious to Generation ; for 

 did not fo great Men as Arijiofle and Erajmus 

 report it, I could hardly be induced to believe 

 that there could be one Species of Infefts genera- 

 ted in Snow. 2. Becaufe if there were any Ani- 

 mals engendered in the Clouds, they muft needs 

 be maim'd and dafh'd in pieces by the Fall, at 

 leaft fuch as fell in the High- ways and upon the 

 Roofs of Houfes ; whereas we read not of any 

 fuch broken or imperfect Frogs found any where. 

 This laft Argument wasfufficient to drive off the. 

 learned Fromondus from the Belief of their Gene- 

 ration in the Clouds ; but the Matter of Fad: he 

 takes for granted, I mean, the fpontaneous Gene- 

 ration of Frogs out of Duft and Rain- Warter,from 

 an Obfervation or Experiment of his own at the 

 Gates of Tournay in Flanders^ to the Sight of 

 wliich Spedacle he call'd his Friends who were 

 there pLefcnc, .that they might admire it with 

 him. Afudden Shower (filth* hS)faili7ig upon the 

 '■v.cry dry Dujiy there fuddenly appear d fuch an Ar^ 

 my of little FrogSy leaping about every where upon 

 the dry hand^ that there was almojl nothing elj'e to, 

 he feen ; they were alfo of one Magnitude and Co- 

 lour ; neither did it appear out of what lurking 

 Places [Latibula] fo many Myriads could creep out^. 

 and fuddenly difcover tbemf elves upon the dry and. 

 dufly Soil^ which they hate. But faving the Reve- 

 rence due to fo great a Man, I doubt not but they 

 did all creep out of their Holes and Coverts, in- 

 > vited 



