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passage to the Ovarium. The Egs affected in the second impregnation, finding no room in the Horns, were forc't back into the Abdomen: where they were found affixed to the Mesentary, Kidney &c. Only Two of the Bags had a Communication with the Womb by a slender Duct. These I suppose fell into the Horns first, and began to fasten to them, but growing larger were forc't to retire. The other Three had had no reception there at all. The Membranes which contained the Embrios were all of them very Thin, and the Animalcles in them had wanted a due supply of nutritious matter. This seems to give as clear a proof of the truth of the modern opinion, as can be expected or desired. But if Anatomie had not disovered these Egs and demonstrated their use and progress to the Womb, and the advances they there make; it would appear now a very difficult task from the other opinion to perswade an inquisitive Person, how an Animal can be produc'd from the mixture of the Seminal Liquors of both Sexes. Every Animal, tho upon other accounts esteemed the most despicable, is made up of so many Different parts, and those of so excellent a Contrivance, and so wonderful a Respect to one another, that tis not to be imagined, that the Seminal fluids lying loose and at large in the Capacity of the Womb, and expos'd to so many accidents, could give a production so admirable.

Every Jogg of it from the frequent Motions of the Female, would disturb and distract the present designs of the Plastic power they speak of. The Humors and Vapors which have a passage to, and humect all the parts of the Body, would in the Womb break in on the soft Seminal Mass, and break off the tender filaments when first a forming. In Quadrupeds the Peristaltic motion of the Horns would perpetually separate the parts of the Seminal Collection, and scatter those pieces, which Nature is putting carefully together into the Fabric of an Animal. From this way of Conception Monsters would be very frequently brought forth, and would be much less wondred at then a perfect pro-ducti-