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fiever, or but rarely found among natural 



produdlions. 



Now altho' every year henceforward, it 

 being at this time but eight, or nine fince 

 their heads were fo re-reformed ; will render 

 the fame more agreeable objefts to a fpec- 

 tator, viz. when they are arrived to a little 

 more height (their bodies being no bigger 

 than the handle of a whip, about ten, or 

 twelve years ago when removed, and of an 

 adequate ftature) likewife clearnefs in their 

 ftems from fome fmall marks thereon, oc- 

 cafion'd by their reftifications ; Yet is their 

 prefent lefs perfed: ftate, better evidence of 

 the efficacy of every part of the mecha- 

 nifm. 



This being yet, however tedious, too 

 general a defcription. I fhould be forry if 

 a full exemplification ; which is wholly in- 

 tended for the better information of the 

 reader, fhould be conflru'd as oflentation in 

 me : The fond fruits of which being, I 

 am confcious, never attainable that way — - 

 However on the prefumption of it's being 

 rightly taken, I fhall finally conclude witl^ 

 fome further particulars of their prefent 



ftate; 



