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phguidine multa circumfufa h^e partes non apparent s 
And from hence, I mean {rom the parts of Generation 
being hid in Fat, might arife that miftake in Arifiotle^ 
which did occafidn him fo pofitively to affirm, Anguil- 
lam neq^ue mar em ejfe neque fceminam. And though it 
cannot but be granted, that that ingenious Infpedor of 
Nature, Mr. Lewenkoek, hath, by the Help of his 
Glafles (which are very good ones) made many curi- 
ous Difcovcries in Animals and their Parts of Generati- 
on, yet never (to ule his own Words) had he found a 
Male Eel that he could call fo ; for all thofe that he 
did Difltdt, as in bis Letter Publiihed in^ the Philofophi- 
cal Tranfa^ionSy Numl. zzi. he declares were provi- 
ded With an Vterus, from whence he doth coojedure 
Eels to be Hermaphrodites, and befides the Vterus to be 
provided with Masculine Seed. 
Another great Controverfy about the Generation of 
Eels is, whether they are Oviparous or Viviparous^ and 
many ingenious Perfons I find there are, which cannot 
confent to an Equivocal or Spontaneous Generation, but 
ftrenuoufly oppofe the fame, yet firmly believe them 
to be Oviparous, whofe Sentiments are contrary to the 
Obfervations of Walter Chartwynd, E(q; who in the 
Month of May^ found them to be Viviparous, by cut- 
ting open the red Fundaments of the Females, from 
whence the Young Eels would iflue for h alive : And 
although Mr. Allen affirms them to be certainly Vivi- 
parous yet his Obftrvations concerning the Place of their 
Conception, I cannot conceive to be confonant to that 
Care and Induftry of Natu e, in providing convenient 
Receptacles for preferving the F^tus, neither is it agree- 
able to Reafon, to believe, that when Nature hath 
provided a Vterus in all Animals, not only the Vivipa^ 
P % rous^ 
