of OXFO%^^S H1%E, 
the fkin is drawn together like a purfe^ and the/ore^ clofed up, the 
hair comes conftantly white : thus the fubtile Veterinarians ^xo~ 
cure white Jiars^ or other defired //z^^r^y in the fore-heads of their 
horfes ; and I have feen thefkins of black Grey-hounds powder- 
ed with rvhite^ or made Ermjnefs, by applying wood-ticks to their 
fkins when young, both which are performed alfo by cicatrization^ 
and clofing the pores of the fkin, thereby hindering the exhalati- 
on of the Sulphur in thofe parts. 
15. Which will further appear from an obfervation of my 
Lord Verulam's concerning Flowers, whereof the whites for the 
moft part are more inodorate than other colours : And this he 
makes out in many Flowers^ as fingle white Violets, the white Rofe, 
white July-flowers, isrc. We find alfo, fays he, that bloifoms of 
Trees that are white arc commonly inodorate ; as of Cherry^ Pear^ 
and Plum-trees: whereas thofe of Apple^ Crab, Almond, and 
Feach-trtes, are bluftiy, and fmell fweet. The caufe whereof is, 
that the texture of thefe Plants producing white Flowers (ex- 
cepting fuch as produce white Flowers only, as Lillies ^ or are 
extravagantly fucculent,as the white Satyrion) is fo very clofe and 
fine, that it will not permit any fulphureou^ particles, which are 
alfo the caufe of /r^iells ' as well as colours, in any meafure to ex- 
hale. Which poffibly may be found true, if duly examined, in 
all forts of Animals ; and if fo, we hereby may be profitably in- 
ftrufted what Beaffs of each kind are leaft offenfive, and fitteft for 
theconverfation of men or women, efpecially Ladies, who com- 
monly have great fagacity in fmelling, may hereby be direfted in 
the choice of their Melitdci or Lap-dogs, 
16. As for p)ied Birds thzt^re generally of another colour, 
fuch zspyed Phefants, isrc the cafe iseafier, for fuch are produced 
either by common colour 'd Hens troden by a white Cockrphefant^ 
or vice verfa ; which poffibly may have happened alfo by our white 
Linnet whether male or female, or in any other Birds of any o- 
ther fpecies^ as we fee it falls out in Bogs and Horfes, and moft 
other Animals, 
1 7. And this had been all concerning Birds, but that at Wit- 
ney, Anno 1674. I met with an Egg about the bignefs of a Pid- 
geons, containing another imperfeft one in it, given me by Mr. 
Hinton the then Minifter there, which feems to have been in the 
way toward fuch an Ovum in Ovo as is mentioned by the Learn- 
* Idem in loco citato^ 
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