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the whole Blood doth not fo often circulate thro' 

 the Lungs as it doth thro* the reft of the Body ; 

 this manner of breathing is fufficient to maintain 

 in them that degree of Heat which is fuitable to 

 their Nature and manner of living ; for to our 

 Touch they are always cold, even in Summer- 

 time, and therefore fome will then put Snakes 

 into their Bofom to cool them. 

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3. Fifhes, which were to live and converfe 

 always in a cold Element, the Water, and there- 

 fore were to have a Temper not excelling in 

 Heat, becaufe otherwife the conftant immediate 

 Contrad: of the Water (unlefs fome extraordinary 

 Provifion were made) could not have been fup- 

 ported by them, that they might not be neceffi- 

 tated continually to be coming up to the top of 

 the Water to draw in the Air, and for many other 

 Reafons that might be alledg'd, perform their 

 Refpiration under Water by the Gills, by which 

 they can receive no more Air than is difpers'd in 

 the Pores of the Water, which is fufficient to 

 preferve their Bodies in that Temper of Heat that 

 is fuitable to their Nature and the Place wherein 

 they live; thefe alfo have but one Ventricle in 

 their Hearts. 



But now tho' this be thus, the great and moft 

 wife GOD, as it were purpofely to demonfti-ate 

 that- he is not by any Condition or Quality of 

 Place neceffarily determin'd to one manner of 

 Refpiration, or one Temper of Body in Fifhes, 



he 



