T. 



Vll. , 



air 



goat of 



'^s, and 

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at 



no 



1 



^^e\v varle, 



^'^^^ ; where 

 > ^s the can- 



' and barret 

 flow 



1 



'ers 



may 



plant oil the 

 • d liferent but 



s, aiiemonies 



> 



» 



:ed by a mix* 

 ;rent genera; 

 -3 and apples; 

 be afterwards 



1 one 



rci 



nat 

 lat 



ibly to tiave 

 ural orders 



about fixty 

 •al order^' 



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ducedthef 

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Sect.VII.2. 8 



REPRODUCTION 



9 



feem to be the chef d'ceuvre of nature, as above renriarked, they often 

 become imperfed in th 



f mu 



d th 



then 



could not be propagated by fexual generation, 

 poffible, that many new kinds of mules, which might be ufeful 



becomes extindt 



for labour, or by their milk 



duced by 



method of Spallan 



for food, might flill be pro- 

 'ho diluted the feminal fluid 



of a dog with much warm water, and by injed 

 bitch, and produced puppies like the d 



a 



it fscundated a 



Thus new animal combinations might poflibly be generated nume- 

 .IS as the fabled monfters of antiquity ; as between the ram and tlve 



the horfe and the doe ; the bull 

 boar^nd bitch ; dog and fow. And fecondly, as Spal- 



female goat ; the flag and th 



and the mare ; 



lan^ani diluted the feminal fluid of a male frog with water, and fe- 

 cundated fome female fpawn with it, and produced perfed tadpoles 

 there is reafon to conclude, that new combinations of fi(h might thu: 

 be creiierated, and people our rivers with aquatic monfters. And ladly 

 that it is not impoffible, as fome philofopher has already fuppofed 



f 



Spall 



fhould 



his experiments, that fome beautiful 

 be f^enerated between the vesctable and animal 



O 



produ6lions might 



kincrdoms, like the eaftern fable of the rofe and nightingale, and 



^ by lateral or paternal, though 



fexual or feminal g 



h might be propagated 



not by 



The claffic- read 



be reminded of the metamorphofes of 



Ovid 



f gods turned into b 



d f w 



men 



dges, ladies into trees and fl 



ot 



f 



fph 



& 



frogs and par 

 ffins, drasons 



mermaids, centaurs, and minataurs ; Pafiphae and her bull ; Leda aird 

 her fvvan: Arethufa.and her fifli-god Alpheus, and conclude th^t 



times were more frequent than at prefent, wh 



fioned the poets and. the priefts of antiquity 



fo 



m 



a 



y 



oc- 



fa 



hnlous monfl:e 



d impofe them on the credulity of mankind 



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II r. vt- 



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