( 5^4 ) 
grow bigger, encreafe in their perfedion. But that it is 
not (6, we fee by the Obfervations that the highly 
Learned Malpigius has made, about the beginning of a 
Chicken in the Egg, for as much as was then in his 
power. 
As what concerns me, I cannot imagine, that an Ani- 
ma! of the Mafculine Seed,can pull of it's Ski nor Film,or 
to free it felf of ic,but that the Men^branes or Skins are 
ftrong, and more than one, and the Mtmbranes wherein 
the Creatures lye in^ the IViothers are not depending 
from the Mother (afrm) but that the Animals that are 
injefted into the uterus^ are only brought there for to 
grow bigger, which Membranes we call tlie after burdens. 
I have had brought (everal times to> me, uterufes 
of Sheep, after they had been fomedays btfore impreg- 
nated , and took out of them, the fame wherein 
the creature did lye, that would have come to be a 
Lamb. 
When u e did look upon this Creature through fuch 
a Magnifying-glafs, as we judged to be moft conveni- 
ent for it, we were forced to look cut very lharply,to 
difcern the parts of this Body from one another ; partly 
becaufe al! the parts of fo fhiall a Creature,aie very (oft 
and fmooth, and partly becaufe this Creature was in a 
round or Globular Poflure, fo that when we came to 
uofo!d them, by the help of a gentle hand, we broke fe- 
veral of the Members. 
We fee alfo, that when a fmall conception cometh a- 
way from it s Mothers Womb before it's time, that the 
' Skins wherein it lyeih, are perfectly whole, and that 
the Creatures therein, are not extended ftrait, but they 
lye round, and in fuch apollure, that it can be no bet- 
ter contrived. 
Thc^ firft figure in the before mention'd Novel/es ^rcpre- 
fents it's Saline Figures, and the fecon d Figure fheweth 
an 
