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Thefe Magnify ing'gfaffes are thus placed, that alchoogh I 
have foni€-tinies Twenty five, Ibmstimes a Hundred coming 
before my Eye fight^and in the (pace of che beating of a Pulfe, 
others do appear again ^ yet not one came ever before my 
Eyes, that was i ' doics as big again as any of the refii which 
I found in great numbers, fo that it is a certain Maxim to 
me, that the faid Animals do not grew bigger, as long as they 
are in che mms, and have received yet no Nouriftment 
from lu , 
Now if an Animal doth come a little to far from the Focus 
of the Magnifying.glafi, then we lee in a Glafs that doth 
Magnify very rmtch, only thehigheft parts of the Body, and 
thus the Animil doth appear Lefs to us, then it would do o- 
therways, and if we put the Animal fomewhat nearer to 
the Glafs, then we begin to fee the outfide thereof, and by 
placing the Animals fo, we may eafily judge fome to be big- 
ger then the others. 
It may alfo happen, that when Two Animals lye by one 
an other, or lye partly one upon another, fo that we fee bue 
only one Tail, we may in (uch a Cafe jadge that wefee but 
one Animal, that exceeds che other in bignefs very much,and? 
in fo doing, we conceive^ to fee fomething, that in reality 
was not true. 
In this fight looking narrowly to it, we fee very well that 
the parts that are within the Body of the Animals,ftand feme- 
what out of the Skin ; now to look into it with a roundilh 
part, and then two or three parts again that ftand out, and 
then again one and (ometimes twa parts that are lojsgeft and 
lye one by the other, and that each of thefe parts Reprefents 
a clearer being then the other, wefee in each Body, that h 
lying feparated from ^he other parts a peculiar fliape, for as 
ROW one Animal does lye with it's back towards us lb can an- 
other again lye with the Belly towards us fidewards. In Oiort^ 
it can appear or Reprefent it feif before us, in fo many pecu- 
liar lliapes or pofture?, as any great Bealf, can Reprefent it 
lelf before our naked Eyes in landing, turning, winding, or 
lying. Nay, it is poffible that Four Animals may iye toge- - 
ther ia fach a Pofture, that Two of their Tails might Repre- 
fent the Arms, and the other two die Legs. 
I cannot omit to tell you, &c. how I come to handle: 
ttefe Animals in the Mafculine Seed, fo chat I may fee thena 
asdiftindlyj as ever it is poffibls. For if we look upon the: 
