and a Natural Hijlory of Jnhnais* v i 
ingfeveral of the figures, and other favours deferve ray 
beft Remembrance. 
I fhall only farther add, that we may here take 
notice of fbmethingof Nature’s working, and gradual 
formation of the different Species of Animals ; who like 
a curious Artift in defigning the richeft Tapiftry, does 
not haftily pals from one extreme Colour to another ; 
but curioufly fhadowing and intermixing the feme, 
does give a greater Grace and Beauty to the whole. 
This is but what hath been formerly oblerved by 
that antient Chriftian Philolbpher Nemefim in his 
n fd qvtxwf ’AvSiavru ( p. ni. 7 . ) where he tells 11s , S j<> im%. 
oAiy>v toiyjkV Irmcvvel^eiv etAAtlhaiS r&S Jjctq>b$ei$ 
&& wav s-tveit yy uvyfiv n M mew kIIQiv, Several in fiances he 
gives of this amphibious or Hermophroditical Nature 
of A nimals and Natural Bodies \ or as it were a leak 
or Gradation of them ; as firft in Zoophytes, then in the 
Teftaceous iCind and Worms, then in more complete 
Brutes ; after in fuch whole lagacit y approaches the 
confines of Reafon \ at laft in Man and Intelligent Be- 
ings, that are a boundary between Divinity and the 
Creation. What we have here is a fignal Example of 
the fame between Land-Quadrupeds and Fillies ; for if 
we view a Porpefs on the outfide, there is nothing 
more than a fifh ; if we look within, there is nothing 
lefs. It cannot abide upon the Land lb much as the 
Phoca , yet is often drowned in its own Element, and 
hath a conftant need of the reciprocal motion of Air in 
Refpiration. It is viviparous, does give fuck, and 
hath all its Organs fb contrived according to the ftan- 
dard of them in Land-Quadrupeds ; that one would ah 
moft think it to be fuch, but that it lives in the Sea, 
and hath but two fore-fins. The Contrivance and 
Structure of feveral of its parts are moft curious and 
admirable ; much illuftrating divers late Inventions 
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