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newly brought from fliore, nor could I eafily perceive, it had any 
relicks of itslatecorruption. 
That the Tefticles of the Animal called Musk-pajh do fmell 
flrong of Musk , as Mr. Jo^din * fairh > ^_ , 
is moft certain : For , I have known fome % 
of them kept a long time in ones pecker, thefcTraas.* * ^ ^ 
till they were become hard and black, and 
yet fmelc as ftrongly as at firft , which^in my opinion,was nothing 
inferiour tothefcentofchat. which is commonly fold for Musk in 
thefliops. I remember, that one of our Seamen , being laid to 
fleep too near the fire-place, with one of thefe dried Tefticles in his 
pockets it happen'd that a coal burn'd through breeches and all to 
it, and made fo great a fcent of musk, that he might eafily have been 
fmelt a good way off , and the fire might perhaps have advanced 
wherethere was a worfe perfume, had not the ftrength of this a- 
waken'd the man , and fo made him withdraw his breech in time. 
This Animal deferves to be further inquired into, efpecially ifwhac 
Mr. 7'^^«m^ relates be true, 1//2S. That Musk is nothing elfe buc 
the Tefl:icles of a bead: like a Deer,found in the province oiHomn^ 
as 'tis noted in Numb. 14. p. 250. of your trm[a6ihns. 
Eoctra^ of a Letter, vpritter^ to the Publijher hy Mr. Leewenhoeck 
from Delft, Afril 21.1676; Concerning 
the Texture ef Tv.,s,a,dfime remarkaMe „ J.^gL^Xly Sr^^^ 
difcovery in Wine 3 together Vpith fome ter refer to the like figures 
Notes thereon in the iV./e. made thereon. 
SIR, 
Monfieur Confiantin Bugens of Zulichem VJZi ^A^^kd to (ht^^ 
me the Comparative Anatomy of the trunks of Plants^ writ- 
.tea by Doflor Grew^ and told me, that he had very ingeniouily and 
learnedly difcourfed upon that fubjeft^ though I, by reafonof my 
unskilfulnefs in the Englifli Tongue, could have little more than the 
contentment of viewing the elegant Curs. 
I have formerly written unto you^x^/^.in my Letter of Augujl 1 5 
1673, that 1 had d i fcoveredinfeveral Trees (i-) two forts ofvef- 
fels or pr>res,and did conceive,that the matter w hich ferves for the 
increafe of Trees was in C^/ th e greater vefjels fent upwards , and 2c 
that fome final! particles did again defcend \n the fmaller Vejfels 
to the roots, whereby was maincaincd a Ca) Circulation alfo in Trees. 3« 
But not finding by the figures of Dr. Grerv\, chat he hath difco- 
■ver'd thofeC4J two forts of Veffelsin the wooddy part, I here take 5., 
. ihe.. 
