- (94). 
tural Element, but were found in a dry Meadow, beded 
together in a Hay flacky the thing will feem more pro- 
bable, to which let me add the Form and Shape of 
their Bodies, which by its undulate or Serpentine Motion 
is adapted to travel in arido : Neither arc Eels the only 
Filh, which by Authors are affirmed to live in Sicca, 
but the Exocet us ^Uo mmnoncd by Rondeletiiu^ with 
others fo confiderable for their Number, that Theophra- 
ftm Erefius wrote a Book of them, which was after- 
wards Commented upon by Aureiiui Severinus, in a 
Book entituled De Fifcilv^n fuco viventihus, Printed 
at Maples^ Anno 1.65' 5. Not to mention the Cerian and 
Paphlagonian Fifties, affirmed by Ariftotle to wander 
up and down on the dry Sands, and then return back 
to Sea again, the like is alio aflerted of ihofe of the Ri- 
ver Cheratiy in Judaa^ by Ceo. Piilorius. All which, 
Rofideletius thinks Eels, as well as the aforefaid Fiilies, 
perform by the Rima of their GiSs, being narrow and 
thereby capacitated to oppofe the free, and too fudJen 
Appulfes of the Air. 
Neither doth the Controverfy here terminate, for 
even among thofe learned Perlbns which oppole an 
Equivocal or Spontaneous Generation, the Difpute is, 
Whether Eels have diftindi Sex, or are Hermopbra- 
dites. By feme a diflincS: Sex is allowed them, for 
Mr. AlJen, in his Account of the Generation of Eels, 
Publiflied inthQ Philo/ophical Tranfa^iions, Numi, 231. 
affirms the Parts diftinguifliing the Sex to be difcovera- 
ble, and in this Rondeletiusis pofitive, when he affirms, 
Angutllas mutuo corporum complexu coeuntes fe vidijfe 
Tieque putare fe partilus ad gignendum nece(fariis pror- 
fus deftitutas ejfe , inferior e enim vent r is parte , ^ 
Vviva in Fosminis & femen in Marihus reperitur : fed 
pinguidine 
