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And fmce this time the faid Gentleman has been feve- 
ral times at my Houfe, and I at his, yet our Difcourfes 
hitherto have never been of the Generation of Eds. 
I cannot omit to tell you, that when 1 was 4fiato. 
mizing of Eeels, as well as Tal^n^ers or Silver Eels, 
which I did procure when I vvas^'d Writing of thiem ; 
and to this very day, I never fouiid a MaJ9 Eel p(dx Pali^' 
ger^ or Silver Eel, that I could call fo for all thefe 
that I did Difled were provided with a Wom/o. 
Now if there be no Male Kind amongft the Eels and 
Palingers as I have found, that little Animals of dififerem 
forts, that were found in great Numbers on the Leaves 
of Currants, Cherries, Plumbs and Rofes, which (orae 
call Lice, after they are found on the Trees, the Bodies 
of thefe Animals were ail over befet with young ones, 
and each of them produce their kind, although 1 could 
not difcern any Male Kind of them, neither cci^d I 
find the leaft fign of Copulation among them, -^y^.a! 
Now whether this Engendring hath alfo place in t/ie 
Eels and Palingers^ ought to be enquired into ; or whe- 
ther every Eel and P dinger are provided with Mafculioc 
Seed,and fo are Hermaphroditjcs as>we do fancy ; as by 
Copulation which we (bmetime fee, for feme F^tuiszxQ 
thus provided : that I have not faid heretofore, that I 
have difcovered in all Eels and Palingers their Womb, 
thati did conceal on purpofe, that in time I might in* 
form and fatisfie my felf better. 
I have now in the Winter diflefted again (omt Palin- 
gers, none of thofe which were lockt up all the Win- 
ter long, that they might be fold the dearer in £(f;r/ but 
fuch as I have been very well farisfied of, that they w ere 
frefhcatched: and now again, in the latter end of ^pril^ 
A have Examined (everal of them, that I might, if pof- 
fibk, the better be fatisfied ; yet notwithftanding all 
theft 
