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rifeabove the water to breath ; which a Cajlor doth not, as having 
a far greater facility to be a long while without refpiration. 
ThQ fixth Is iht Civet -Cat ^ which they were glad they had the 
opportunity CO compare with a C4/?^?r, forafmuch as thofe two 
Animals agree in thofe organs thai are very peculiar to them, which 
are the receptacles wherein that liquor is collefted that is fu re- 
markable for its fcenfj but is very fweet in the one, and very un- 
pleafing in the other. Which made them fearch^ whether there was 
notfomeparticular reafon of thisdiverfiry of fraell^ but to them 
icappear'd not thatchere was any other caufe than the diverfitycf^ 
the Temperament of thefe Animals , the Chet-Cat being hor and 
dry, drinking little, and living in hot and dry Countries ^ but^ 
the Capr^ living now in the Water^then upon the Earth, and beings 
a very moift Creature, hath not heat enough to concoft and per-; 
feft its humidity. 
They had,it fcems,twoof thefe Cats.a Male and a Female,which> 
were fo like one another outwardly, that there was not fo much as 
any diftinflion of fex that appeared ; the Male,upon the difftflion, 
beingfound to have its genitals hidand fliut up within,and the vef-^ 
fel that contains the odoriferous liquor being altogether alike in 
both. Which veffel is a pouch or fack under the ^;^i5^ynot under the 
tail, as puts it in his Hyem (which they make the fame 
with the Ci'L^fMr^^,) and is different from ttt mutriss \ both very 
accurately defcribed by them* As to the odoriferous liquor^iheyr 
found it come forth ^ in the Male as well as rhe Female, out of a 
great number of glanduls that are between the two coats that com- 
pofe the poucheSjWhich were in the Male very !arge,and very fnia'l 
in the Female 3 the Male yielding alfo a Civet more pleafing than 
the Female, though Authors generally afiirm the contrary* They 
found not, that the fmell of the Civet becomes more perfrft by 
being kept a while, nor that it is of an ofFenfive fmell when new, as 
AfTiat.LuJita^us affirm; this fmellnot feemlng tothembetterafrcf 
a years fime^ thanatthe timeof thedifleflioR» 
Thcfeve^th IS the Eik , of which they examine very foil icii- 
toufly its C/4»?i,togerher with the tradition of this Aiiimals curing 
it felf of theEpilepfy (to which 'tis fa id to be very fubjefi) by 
putting oneof his feet into his Ear ; v^^he^ce the Claw of rha£ 
foot is alfo much celebrated among the vulgar^diS a fpecifick againft 
that diftempert Of its Bw'^ they take notice, that thQglarjduk 
