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copus, which I do expreffly fay had a fmall one. 

 ^hofe Fifties are farther to beexamin'd. The Lamprey,- 

 I believe, cannot raife it felf up in the Water, and 1 

 doubt whether the Bull-Head do or can. 



As for the contrary Currents at the S freights, if 

 they be at the fame time, your Argumentation muft 

 needs be good: And Mr. Smith, who was upon the 

 Spot, and on purpofe to enquire and obferve, acknow- 

 ledges no fuch thing ; but infifts upon an under Cur- 

 rent : And as for the Thracian Bofphorus , he confi- 

 dently affirms that the Current conftantly fets out- 

 # ward , I mean from the Euxine Sea, I am not con- 

 'cern'd that the Current (at the Streights, I mean,) 

 fhould conftantly, and only fet inward, and it would 

 fuit my Hypothefis better that it ftiould be indiffe- 

 rent. 



I have read over your Peyers Merycologia , and do 

 own him to be an ingenious and careful Writer 5 but 

 yet in fome few things I muft needs differ from him, 

 they being contrary to my Opinions and Obiervati- 

 ons. For I have many Years ago, with as much di- 

 ligence as I could, examin'd the Stomachs of Kine. 



I doubt whether Mr. Lewenhoeck's Obfervations be 

 exa&v for in thofe of the Seeds of Plants I find him 

 miftaken in fome, y. g. Radijh , Zurneps, and others 

 of that kind, which I have forty times difle&ed and 

 open'4 with my Hands, and feen clearly with my na- 

 ked. Eyes. He faith they have four Leaves, and 

 gu,res them accordingly, whereas they have but two 

 . only, wich a notch or crena at the top j but that not 

 very deep, fo as to make any fhew or appearance of 

 two Leaves. And it's clear, by their coming up,, that 

 they have but two Leaves, for they bring up the very 

 fame that were enclofed in the Seed. And Signior 

 Malpighi agrees exactly with me both in the number 

 of Leaves, and the. manner of their complication, 

 both in his Figures and Defcriptions. 



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Liz Mr, 



