. ■ and a Katural Hifior^ if jfni^^^^^ . ^ i 
f^^verai of th^ figures, ^Mother fa^our^ delen^m^ 
tJdod lUw JfiJ^w riir// 333m > yi^r^ ^.-y^- 
formation of the different Species' of -Animals ;'^tvfiD '1*e 
a curious Artift in defigning the richeft 1 apiftry, does 
not haftily pafs from one extreme Colour to another ; 
but curioufly flaadowing and intermixing the lime' 
does give a greater Grace and Beauty to the whole. 
This IS but what hath been formerly obfcrved by 
that anticnt Chrillian Philolbpher Akmefim in liis 
^ tpvaie^^ "Ay^S^'w ( p. va.^.) whcrc he tells us , 5 JV/^aj- 
(^lait SvAi ^ mjy^v'^ -Hw craw it\i(^ty. Several inftanccs lic 
gives of tijis amfhihious or Hermophroditical Nature 
"OTi ^ -T iim a- k -tMid Natuml - B odies "j -or-ag-it-wefe^a-fcAJe 
or Gradation of them; as firft in Z^ophjtasy then hi the 
Teftaceous Kind and Worms, then in more complete 
Brutes ; after in fuch whofe ftgacity approaches the 
con6nes of Reafon at laft in Man and Intelligent Be- 
ings, that are a boundary between Divinity and tlie 
Creation. What we have here is a fignal Example of 
the fame between Land-Quadrupeds and Fiflies ; for if 
wc view a Porpefs on the outnde, there is nothing 
more than a fifh ; if wc look within, there is nothing 
Jefs, It cannot abide upon the Land fb much as tl>e 
-^^hdca^ yet is often drow^ned in its own Element, aixi 
hath aconftant need of the reciprocal motion of Air in 
Refpiration. It is viviparous, does give fiick, and 
hath all its Organs lb contrived according to the ftaa- 
dard of them in Land-Quadrupeds ; that one would al- 
moft think it to be fiich, but that it lives in the Sea., 
and hath but two fore fins. The Contrivance and 
Stru&ure of leveral of its parts are moft curious and 
admirable ; much illuliraring divers lat« Inventions 
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