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of aftimals, or onl^ differ from them iri 
weight and colour, or have nothing cdmi^ 
raon with them but the outward hgure 
only.--^ : ' : . 
i There occurs a great difficulty in that 
vafl number oiXeeth^ which every Year 
are brought out oiMaltha^ feeing that 
almoft no Ship goes thither,but it brings 
back ifome of>them. for my part, I can 
find no other anfwer to that difficulty but 
this: 1. That fuch Sea-Dogs have,each 
of them,fixty teeth5and more 5 and that 
all the time they live they breed new 
teeth. 2= That the Sea agitated.by the 
Winds is wont to protrude thofe bodies, 
it meets with, towards fome one place,.- 
and there heap them together. That 
&a-Dogs go. by Flocks,and confequent- 
ly that the Teeth of many Dogs may have ^ 
been left in. one place. 4. That in the 
Lumps of m^ahha-'Eznhy brought hi- 
tlier, befides the feveral Teeth of divers 
Dogs,thcre are alfo found fundryGockle- 
fliels-, fothatjif the Number of theTceth_ 
fhould incline a Manto aferibe their pro- 
dudion to the Earth, pn the other hand 
theM^^^ of the fame teeth, and the a- 
bundance of them in every animal, and 
