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To this Objedion 1 often come to Anfwer, snd di* 
•re(3: them to the multiplicity of Seeds wherewith a Tree 
is charged, as I have often faid heretofore. 
Now if we fee that a common Fig has between four 
and five Hundred Seeds, and that one Tree doth Yearly 
produce many Figs, and that every ripe Seed of a Fig 
can produce a whole Tree; and confequently, if a 
Country was planted all over with Fig-trees, it may 
produce fo many Fig-trees in a Year, that we might not 
only Plant a whole Kingdom all over with Fig-trees,that 
all thefe Seeds might produce, but alfo the whole earth* 
Jy World and that this doth not only fucceed in Fig- 
Trees, but many other : Then I think, with Submiffion, 
we ought no more to ask why fo many Animals are cre- 
ated in the Seed of Males. 
We have reafon to lay our Hand upon our Mouth, 
and think that the Almighty has thought this conveni- 
ent, for the Procreation of all that has moving and 
growing ; and thus all our Reafon is but gueffing, and 
that the true Reafon is to us incomprehenfible. 
When I once was eating of Strawberries, and fixed 
my Eyes upon the little Apices we fee on a Strawberry, 
I did conclude that every one of them was a Seed ; and 
to confirm my Opinion I took a Strawberry, one of the 
biggeft and ripeftj and there I found a great many 
Seeds, after I had taken off the Film wherein they were 
wrapt up, and found, that every Seed of them had alfo 
a firing whereby th^y were nourifhed. 
I opened feveral of them, by taking off their hard 
Husk, andfaw, that everyone of them had the fluff wc 
call a Pith: Having feparated this Pith from its ancient 
Film, I took out the Plant which I alfo caufed to be deli- 
neated.that we might fee how many Seeds we fend toge- 
ther into our Stomach, when we eat but one Spoonful 
of Strawberries ; for when 1 did divide one of the big- 
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