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Hie Conjè&iire;. yet this Phenomenon may admit o f am
other folution, for why may not thofe Creatures be there
generated, and after Hie fall saf thofe Rains defert their
Cells o f L at ebree, tobask upon the furface o f the Ground
as We daily ;fee here in Frogs and Wmns>. and other, jRepv
tilts ?.:However it is, the Ponds that were never ftored
may be fupply’d other ways* for it is/üfaal foir Ee/es to
quit the Pits, and creep into the Graft and Hitches, and this
I have often obforv’d, having found Eeles in the midft of
Fields, remote from any Pit, by which means other Ponds
may be replenifh’d with this kind o f Filh : :for my part I
Ihall not determine the Point, but thefc being induftrious
Ages/ hy the afliftance ö f Microfcopes, which, akte daily
improv.d* others may give us farther fatis&éliöö in this
Matter. : :■ I ... p ! . m lads
But I cannot here omit that remarkable Experiment of
the moft ingenious Lewenhooke, who in this Creature was
the firft that gave us an ocular Demonftration of the Circulation
of the Blood, and beyond contradiction has made it
manifeft that the Vein and Artery are one continued. Canal,
Shewing a Pulfation in xme p artnf the Veflèï, and none in
the other, but that the Blood ffowly creeping on, the Arteries
at their Extremities form a kind o f Semicircle; fo
that the ftrait Line being terminated, the Syftole o f the
Heart at fo great a diftance is notable to a feft a Gdrye, for
we rauft imagin the Pulfe to be extreamly weak at the
Extremities of the Arteries, for when a Veffd deviates from
the direct Line of the Power, it thence ceafos to be aflfeét-
ed with i t ; and hence it is that the Veins, tho’ they are
continued Veflels with the Arteries, have no Puliation at
all. What is faid of this Fifli generating with fVipers, as
trifling and ridiculous, for whoever examins the Parts of
thefo two Creatures fubforvient to Generation, will find it
wholly impoffible, the Male Viper containing a Tents, and
the Female Ova and Ovaria, but in Eeks neither are- dift
cernible.
The
L A N G A S M m m GSM. |£ d
- bThsinext rematkab^Experirnent imthi%^^teis the long)
continued Syftole and Diaftolq of the Heart aftet it is taken
out of thq,Body* which foniptimes is for,fomeH<?ufo^iThis:
P ^ e ^ ^ e ft^yidearly.demhuftratedl iymightheiQffgBeate
feymfntmg inrMF^hUtieal; GlaiptdulF]. in which,
treinities pf ^epArterigsr!terminj?tfJ -whichrig lfit^younj
Authorfqrw^jylly a n d 30^'
pr,-i%is^lpn here that t|i|\Qii§t|lati(35fiM
cut oflf? fo that this JVIqtion cangot he ,perform dfoy-a-ny
befidesr ,the Globule,® of the Bloo,d;fit felf: atV'dilfiernible
by Microfc©pes, one; would thinkj.tlfien.tbat tb s# Glandules
which feparate- the Globi^^flmjqld'be much,more peri
ceiveable themfolyes£ But thefo Gla^d#Jes^e:nf#heafitO;|ii
obforv'd bfrMFcW ai Ghfor-[
yatfons; it would behFst£r fpr.the, A-uthorb to^kyiLyhis
Suppofitionf^ and much to^'^is.^dyanta'gq tb iSpply^himfklf
to an induftrious. Education, rendqr himfolf-Mafternf
fight Reafon„ which done, hepyilj- jfqon-feethe vanityynf
his o.wn: Attempts in this kind. In .explginipg Mufqular
Motion Bwfllns and St mo are deficiqpt, and Dr Charlptdp
aft d all fils elabqratqtEx,pepn}er^t^ ^jylyio^ps
faction in anyHypothefi^that jbg could ^fi^qnpernfngvit;
for lfiy part I think it is iPnly,.tqi h^^qlye|dj|)y
. gaye i t : How can,we fuppofe Mufqu^r Motjdn -.to. he$ea|-
form’d in rnoft Sh,ell-fifti,, \yhich have ngbfeqQd
dulesp'yet fonie pf th em h a y e v e ry ^ ^
tiaps*. as tji,e sjbriwp -and
come the Mufcles; to contract fo ftrongly’?. v I&igimpofTiJble
a little Blood and L)>mpha.ihq\\\di^ c & thisp but indeed
.of the Spirits, But then it isjimpofl^ble that the Spirits
ftiould be a Mucilage, (which the. forementipn?d Author
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