alithefs kind of creatures to be oUfpPntamus birth, and no 
more to contribute to the pro udtion of one anocher^than Trees^ 
and therefore to have no dtftindion of 5ex, I have no rea- 
fon to fubfcribe to his authority, fincelhave ftenfominyof 
them paii'd j and in the very aft of Venery. That they en« 
genderthen, ismoft certiin-, butwhttherthofe, that are thus 
found coupled , be one of them male , and the other female^ or 
rather, as you ©bferv'd , and publiftied to the World in the 
Catalogue 0f Plants growing Wild about C^;»^nW^^ 3 that they 
are both male and female and do in the aft of generation both 
recieve into themftlves, and immic a like penis {zs it feems 
probable to any man that ihill part them ) I leave to further aad 
more minute difcovery to determine. 
Moreover, we find in^n/^>//eaCirckofother parts^but of 
thefe no mention at al). However the Romans knewfome- 
thing extraordinary of thefe kind of Animals , that made them 
fo choice of them, as to reckon them among their moft deli- 
cate food, and to ufeall care and diligence to breed and fit them 
for their Tables « large defcribed to us by Fang. Their taft nad 
relifti is none, methinks, of the moft agreeable. 
Of late, com)^tm%BttfffsHlfl0ire Am$ureu[e de Gat^k mth 
Tetronius Arbiter ^ out of whom I was made to believe , he had 
taken two of his Letters word for word, befides other Love- 
intrigues 5 I found, inrunning him over 5 what fatisfied me 
not a little in this very fubjed of ^if;^//^/ 5 viz. That thefe ve- 
ry Animals , as well as other oddthings in N iiure , t%^Trnff$i 
Mufhrmsy^nd no doubt too the Cosfi or great Worms in the Oak 
( another i?^;»/^^ dainty) were madcufeof by the Adclents to 
incite Venery, Youl there find, that the diftreffed and feeble 
Lover prepares himfelf with a ragouft of Snailes necks {cervices 
Cfidlearum-,) and indeed in this part it is that thefe ftrangepe- 
nes's arcto be found, 
Mr. ^^(^il does asit were promifc the Anatomy of this In- 
It were furely worth his pains, and the Learn'd World 
would be oblieged to him for a piece of this nature • nothing ^ 
* msnthis WAS mimn , accurately done of the inward part of 
MaipigbiutdfiBoBQbyce ij'^inw anyinfci^j bciiig vet publifht 
