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Conformation of the parts cannot fo fpoil the fame as to render \t 
unfit for the funflions, and is yet lefs capable to make a iMutilati- 
on^ but may moreeafily caufe fome vice m the Temperament , 
l^'hichisavery natural ftquel of mixture; f i^d Jaftly , that tis 
probable, that if the Mule be theonly Animal, which the confu- 
fion of renders fterile,there is fomething particular mi hofe 
Animals that have engendred it, which is not found in others 5 and 
that is perhaps, as^r//?.//^ thinks , the hardnej of the«i^/;'/jf in 
Mares and Afles, which like an Earth is rendred fterile by drinefs 5 
whereas that reafon haih no place in Leopards, Foxes and others, 
which arc Animals fecond enough to tranfmit to their off- fpring 
the ftrongdifpofitions they have for generation, notwithftanding 
the refiftance which the mixture of difTerent/pm^/s may bring. 
The Third is the Sea Fox.'in whofe ftomach they found a branch 
of the Sea-herb^^r^^, andaFifliof five inches !cng, without its 
head, fcales.skin and bowels, all having been confuii^ed, except the 
niufculous fiefli.which was yet entire. And as to us Guts , they 
obferve, that the Upper part of them had a peculiar ftruaore,and, 
irrfteadof the ordinary circumvolutions of Guts , the cavity of 
thefe was difting jifh'c by many tranfvers (eparations , compofed 
of the membransof the Inteftin turned-inwards, which feparati- 
ons were half an inch diftant from one another, and turn'd heli- 
cally like a Snail- fhelU which may be taken for a caufe that the 
foodisftaiedanda long while apafling, though theway be fliorz 
^^The fourth IS the Female Lynx, which is one of the animals^that 
have fiiort Guc5, of which kind the Lion is alfo one , whofe Guts 
they f und hardly longer than three times the length of his body : 
Which argaes fpeedy digeftionand great voracity. 
The Ji/th is the Otter , the difference of which from the Caflor 
they have very carefully obferved ; as they have alfo the peculiar 
connexion of the Spleenof the Otter, which they fay is different 
from that of almoft all other animals^ in which that 'z;//?^^ is gene» 
rally faftned to the ftoraach,^ whereas in^his Otter it was faft to the 
i:mpl0on. And as to ^foramm ov-de, they found no appearance in 
this Query that it had ev(?r had a hole that could give paffage to 
the blocc frouvthe ^emcAw 'mo ihGarterUve^fofa', which,-they 
fay, agrees well enough with that remark, -which all the Ancients 
We uiade^ viz. that the OtUr is conftrain'd from time to time to 
rife 
