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in doing it; in all which time the feed is fucceflively ri- 
pened and perfeded. So alfo are irc^^j" by what I have 
experienced, for the firft Animals I fought were dead, and 
though ! afterwards found live ones, yetthofe were dead 
that lay deepeffe in the Tejiicle. 
Tis well known that when a Cock^ hath txoA ^ Henhwt 
once, many Eggs are made fruitful, the realon that I give 
for it is, that many of the Eggs in the Ovary ^ haveeach of 
them received an JnimalcuU out of the Male feed. This 
Animalcule while the Egg is fate upon dees notprefently 
take the figure of a Chick^ but grows into a diforderly Bulki 
wherein the heart is firft plainly p be dilcerned. Other 
J^^Fif^//// have a different way of growth, the L(?2(/^has all 
its parts, and is a ^r^^^^r while it is yet in the £^^5 the 
f/^-zs^ fhows like globules fwimmingin a watry fubflance, 
it afterwards becomes a Worm^ then a Nymfha. The Frog 
is a thick Worm till it be of a confiderable bignefs. The 
Humane Foetus tho no bigger then a Green Vea^ yet is f ur- 
nifhedwith all its parts. I have often endeavoured to 
difcover the Animal coming out of the Male feedy in the 
egg of the Hen ; but have been unfuccefsf ul tho fome of 
the Globules of the -Ej^^ were magnified ro the bignefs of 
common Apples. This difappcintment has put me upon 
the Eggs of JnfeBs as the Flea, and Lotife, which being ve- 
ry fmall, may be fo much the fitter for this difcovery. 
A certain Fhyfician writing of Generation fets down 
thefe words in the Margent /ro/Tz the female feed the fruit 
muflgrovo however the thing came to pafs. This he inlarges 
upon in the Text^ but I thmk under corredion that by one 
inftance I ihall bring a fufficient proof of the fruits com- 
ing from the M^/^/^^^, and the/^w^/^j- only contributing 
to the nourifhment and growth of it. Many of our> 
A^i?^^/;io2^rj* either for their pleafure or profit, keep tame 
^W^^/, which are large longeard, ordinarily of a white 
colour, but fometimes of a Blew, Black, and Pyed ^ thole 
that would make a proffit of thefe 'Rabbets by canfin^^ 
them to bring gray young ones, whichinthe forepart of 
