required to make outthe poffibility of the bed of Oyfier^ coming 
thither without a Deluge^ but that Cats-grove wzs the place ap- 
pointed for the Armies repaft. ^ 
1 1 8. Secondly^ That thefe/orwei^y^^^m are many of them in 
allrefpe6:s like the living^e//-y^ ; thus fays ^oiTCo;?^, the Her if- ] 
fons Sfatagi of flene \ the Cornua Ammonk or Nautili tapides have ] 
the very marks, characters, eminencies, cavities, and all other j 
parts alike^ with the true living Nautili^ and Herijfcns fpatagi^ and | 
Brijfi of Imferato, ^nd Ronde let ^ which proves, fays he, /'(^^ r 
changed to hdve been the very fame things with that which i6 living. 
But 1 muft tell him, it do's it but very weakly, all arguments 
drawn a fimilitudine being the moft inefficacious of all others"| 
fuch rather illuftrating than proving , rather perfwading than 
compelling an adverfaries aifent : For how many hundred things 
are there in the World, that have fome refemblance of one another, 
which no body will offer to think were ever the fame^ and parti- 
cularly amongft fome other formed Jiones hereafter to be mention- 
ed. Such are the Jiones Otites, or Auriculares^ feveral forts of 
Cardites^ Lafldes Mammillares^ Hyjierolithos^ (sfc, which though 
they as exactly refemble thofe parts of Men from whence they^ 
have their names ^ as any Conchites or Echinites do thofe fiell-fijh ; 
yet no Man that lever heard of, fo much as dreamed that thefe 
were ever the real parts of Af^;?, in procefs of time thus turned 
into ^one. As well might we fay, that our Kettering-Jione in 
Northampon-Jhirehexe in England^ was once nothing elfe buti 
the fpawn of Lohjiers ; than which, that I know of, there is nc-J 
thing more like. 
119. But fliould it be granted that thefe ftone Herifons fpatagi 
were fomtime real Pjell-fijh^ as reafonably enough perhaps we ^ 
may., they being found at Malta^ as you come into the Vort over- 
againft St. Ermt yet this by no means would conclude that all \ 
others of the form muft needs be fo, that are attended with much ; 
different, and indeed (inrefped of having once been^eZ/y) in- 
explicable circumftances. 
120. Thirdly and laftly, That it feems quite contrary to the infi- j 
nlte prudence 0/ Nature, which k obfervMe in all its works dnd 
productions^ to defign every thing a determinate end, and for the'] 
attaining that end, makes ufe of fuch ways 05 are (asfar as thekpow^ 
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