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Mthiopes are Flefhly, Plump, and have great Lips All which betoken 

 Moifiure retained, and not drawn out. We fee alfo, that the Negroes are bred 

 in Countries that have plenty of Water, by Rivers, or otherwife : For Meroe, 

 which was the Metropolis of Athiopa, was upon a great Lake : And Congo, 

 where the Negroes are, is full of Rivers. And the Confines of the River Ni- 

 ger, where the Negroes alfoare, are well watered : And the Region about Ca- 

 po Verde, is like wife Moift, infomuchas it is peitilent through Moilture": 

 But the Countries of the Ahy\]encs, and Barbary, and P em, where they are 

 Tawney , and Olivaiter,and Pale, are generally more Sandy,and Dry. As for 

 the JEthiopes, as they are plump, and Flefhly So ( it may be ) they are San- 

 | guine, and ruddy Coloured, it their black Skin would iuffer it to be feen. 



t ij^Oiae, Creatures do move a good •'while after thdr Head is off, As Birds. 

 Solitary tou- ' *5some a very little time ^ As Men, and all beads. Some move, though cut. 

 aShf rt" i in feverall Pieces h As Snakes, Eeles,Wormes,Flies,&c.Y\rt\ therefore it lscer- 

 flantoi Death, tain, that the Immediate Cauje ot : Death, is the Refolution or Extinguifh- 

 400 ment of the Spirits And that the Deltruc'tion 01 Corruption of the Organs, 

 is but the Mediate Cauje. But foire Organs are fo pC" emptorily neceltary , 

 that the Extinguifhment of the Spirits doth fpeedily f ollow •, But yet fo, as 

 there is an Interim of a Small Time. It is reported by one of the Ancients, of 

 credit, that a Sacrificed Beaft hath lowed, after the Heart hath been fevered 

 And it is a Report alio of Credit, that the Head of a Pig hath been ope- 

 | ned, and the Brain put into the palm of a Mans hand, trembling, without 

 breaking any part of it, or fevering it from the Marrow of the Back-bone-, 

 During which time the Pig hath been, in all appearance, fhrkdead, and 

 without Motion- And altera fmallTime the Brain hath been replaced, 

 and the Skull of the Pig doled, and the Pig hatha little after gone about. 

 And certain it is, that an Eye upon Revenge hath been thruft forth, foasit 

 hanged a pretty diftance by the Fifua/l Nerve ; And during that time the 

 Eye hath been without any power of Sight =, And yet af ter ( being replaced ) 

 recovered Sight. Now the Spirits are chiefly in the Head, and Cells of the 

 Brain, which in Men, and Beafis are Large And therefore, when the Head 

 is off, they move little or nothing. But Birds have fmall Heads, and there- 

 fore the Spirits are a little moredifperfed in the Sinews, whereby Motion 

 remaineth in them a little longer • Inlbmuch as it is Fxtant in Story, that an 

 Emperourot Rome, to (hew the Certainty ot his Hand, did Shoot a great 

 Forked Arrow at an f finch, as (lie ran fwiftly upon the Stage, and ftrook off 

 her Head, And yet (he continued the Rjce, a little way, with the Head 

 off. As for Wormes, and Flies, and Eeles, the Spirits are diffufed 

 almoft all over And therefore they move in 

 their Severall Pieces. 



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