yerv dry ) than the feathers of a Goofe, which is 
i>y nataee more moift and humid ; fo that a Sheep-' \ 
conbmes ne’re the more for being laid by 
the skin of a ; for it is by nature more folid 
and fabllantial, and therefore may very well laft 
longer than the ocher j as we fee that the bodies i 
of thofe peribns which are lean and fpare, may be 
kept much longer from putrifa£lion than thofe 
bodies which are more fat and grofs. 
Wefhall notfpeak to that place, 
where peeled rods and laid them before the 
Sheep when they conceived ; but fhall only take 
notice of this by the way, that the fame Device 
would not have the fame Effeft in other places • 
for, we muft confider, that in thofe Countreys 
where Jacob lived, the Sheep were wont to wan* 
der up and dbwn in dry, barren fields, where they 
could not come by a drop of water untill noon, at 
which times they ufed to be driven to the we}Is, 
and there were watered ; by which they being 
flinch refrefhed, b^ame more apt for Copulation, 
and the fight of the rods did work on their imagi- 
nation ; but I doubt whether it would have the 
like effefl in other Countreys. 
The Jews will noteat the finnew that is in the 
leg of a Sheepf efpecially, though they will not eat 
that part of any other creature, as being that part 
in which Jacob was touched by God, Gcf},^ a . lo. 
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