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the Seed, and prefently fetring it before my Mfcrd- 
fcope, i could fee an infinite nuuiber of thofe Amntdculcty 
fwimming in Legions together, and croffing one another 
like Clouds in a Itormy day, and as Brisk and Lively as if 
the Cock had been newly kill'd. ^ - 
. Tiiat part of the Intrails wliich I had taken out of the 
Cock, I put into the Body ag^iin,, and drew the Skin over 
it, in order tb take out a little more of the Seed about fix 
hours after.,,;, j,^,. xAiuJ\v.'' ./.'V: 
At noon accordingly I took out a little 0I" the Seed, and 
found, the AnimdcuUt in the fame ftiil: living. 
But in the evening about fix having again tajc^.fome 
of the Semen out of thQ J^'af a Diefere^tia^ I could not per- 
ceive any of them living. - ^ ; 
Then I opened thole Veffeis in feveral places, even 
vi^here they terminate in the Tefticles, but the AmmdcnU 
were all dead. 
Seeing now the Anlmdmla in Semhie Mafctilino are liv- 
ing when taken out of the Body of the Cock, v/armth fo 
long after the Cock itfelf is dead, who knows but 
as the fame, are placed for to fafVen in the OvAriHm or Egg- 
neft of the Hen, not ©ne Yolk, but many, which compofe 
the Bed of Eggs, and fo to impregnate them 5 the more 
becaufe we find, that with one Coition of the Cock and 
the Hen, moft of the Eggs vyhich the Hen lays in a month 
or two, are impregnated. 
I have often thought too, whether or no the Yolks of 
the Eggs being in the Ovarium, and not having attained 
the hundredth part of their Growth, are not made for 
each of them to receive one of thofe Ammdcnla from the 
Seed of the Cock, and to keep it there till the Yolk of the 
Egg be furrounded by the White, and the neceffary Heat 
introduced 5 the more, becaufe we know that out of the 
•White of the Egg the Chicken receives its firft Growth. . 
