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laid on the warmeft Side of a well promiilng Pool or 
Pond, the Sun's Heat will thence hatch them ; of w hich 
Original Myllius, in his Treacife Orrghe Ammahmt^, 
lib, \o, and Morhofitu de MetaUorum tranfmutaiicne^ 
38, 39. feem fo weli (acisfied, that they give the 
Procefs of this Affair, as pracSifed by the Dntch^ fuc- 
cefsfully to ftock their Fiili- ponds with that fort of 
That the Generation of any Animal caonot be Equi- 
vocal or Spontaneous, but irom Animal Parents., hath 
been fo well, by many undeniable Arguments aflert- 
ed, and by multiplied Experiments confirmed, by thofe 
famous and celebrated Virtuofi ^ Malpigh^iu ^ B.cdi ^ 
Swammerdam, Leevoenhoeck^ Mr. Ray^ and others, in 
their leveral learned and ingenious Trads and Obier- 
vations on that Subjedl, that I think there is no room 
left in the leaft to doubt buc that Eels have the fame 
Original. And if we may credit w^hat the ingenious 
Dr. Plot, in his Natural Hiflory of Stafford/hire, p. 243. 
writes, concerning the Night Travels of Eels obftrved 
near Bilfon in that County, by Mr. Mofely^ the Way 
of I heir flocking Ponds, may not be altogether 16 
improbable neither, as at firfl: it may be thought to be, 
if we but confider how long they will live out of Wa- 
ter, and though I cannot with Plinyr' in his Natural 
Hiflory^ Lib. 9. Cap, 21. allow the time to be Six Days, 
yet I am fure it may be long enough, to travei over a 
few fhort Meadows, or from one Ditch or Pcnd to a- 
nother, which may be performed in much lefs time 
than that of one Night ,• and if we may believe what 
Gefner in his Book of Fiflies. lib. 4. cap, de Augui/la, 
quotes from Alhertus^ of a Parcel of Eels, which in a 
very cold Winter, Anno iiij. not oniy left their Na- 
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