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vited by the agreeable Vapour of the Rain- Water; 

 this, however unlikely it may feem, is a thoufand 

 times more probable than their inftantaneous and 

 undifcernible Generation out of a little dry Dufl 

 and Rain- Water, which alfo cannot have any 

 time to mix and ferment together, which is the 

 Hypothe/is ht 2idhcvcs to 'y nay, I affirm, that it is 

 not at all improbable; for he that fhall walk out 

 in Summer Nights, when it begins to grow dark, 

 may obferve fuch a Multitude of great Toads and 

 Frogs crawling about in the High-ways, Paths 

 and Avenues to Houfes, Yards, and Walks of 

 Gardens and Orchards, that he will wonder 

 whence they came, or where they lurk'd all the 

 Winter and all the Day-time, for that then it is a 

 rare thing to find one. 



To which add, that in fuch Frogs as we are 

 fpeaking of, Monfieur Perault hath upon DifTe- 

 ftion often found the Stomach full of Meat, and 

 the Inteftines of Excrement; whence he juftly 

 concludes, '' that they were not then firft formed, 

 " but- only appear'd of a fudden; which is no 

 " great Wonder, fmce upon a Shov^er after a 

 *' Drought, Earth-worms and Land-Snails innu- 

 *' merable come out of their lurking Places in 

 " like manner. 



In Confirmation of what I have here written 

 aga.infk the fpontaneous Generation of Frogs, ei- 

 ther in the Clouds out of Vapour, or on the Earth 

 out of Dufl and Rain- Water commix'd, endea- 

 vouring 



