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Show \ , Book I. Part IV. C H A P. X X XV. 0f the ‘Porrrr of generation in Infiéh'. ma," 5 "NlEéts are a feleé't Comendium of Animals, wherein area great com. fggififl'ij pany of . different Parts .bound up in afmall Volume, winch fpeaketh grca i . IcrAnimaIS- the great artifice and contrtvance of the molt Noble Architect, who dif- polEth all things out of His infinite wrfdoni and goodnefs in wonderful order, whereby the numerous fine parts of thefe Minute Animals are made fervice- able to each other for their mutual advantage. And thefe minute models of Creatures are very worthy our remark, as be. ing furnifhed with a great Apparatm of Genital parts, having a mutual de. pendance, in which they have very much Analogy with thofe or greater mama], fifffgs'?" Thchnitals "ml" Trcadimm mm"; Silk-Worms. gimme dam. A{cattd 3‘3"" near Animals. _ The Males of Inlééts are endowed with a great {look of Genitals, as pre; paring Arteries, Veins, Nerves, Art-vefiels, Telhcles, Paraitats, Seminal Vefieles attended with a fi'em'a. The Females alfo are adorned with a furniture of variety of parts minifle: rial to Procreation , as Spermarick Arteries, Veins, Nerves, Air-veffels, Ovaries, Oviduéts, uterus, and ‘Tudendum. . The confines of the Guts ina Silk~Worm, are immured witha bony Circle, and [haded as it were with Hair and Doun; This hard rmg ( being outwardly foftned with a more tender Membrane) is compofed of three bony flakes winding in circular poitures, guarding the terminatlons of the Bowels, among which the entrance of the "term is feated, endued With, a more deep colour and a more firm fubfiance, and adorned with a femrcrrcular figure, and in its middle hatha Fillure, leading into the Vagina,«1nto which the Tania hath a reception. The (pace, interceding the confines of the Bony Circle, is encompalled with a Membrane, which being befet with Mufcles, and the Belly compreffed, is turned outward, and rendred Tenf'e, making many Protuberancrcs about the Am", and in the middle of them two oval Tumors may be feen, irrterfperfed with Hair, and near it is a common Cavity, as in Filh and Fowl, in which the Paatm‘ and Eggs are fome time detained before they are excluded. Near the termination of the Ovary is placed a Bladder about thelower re- iiifntEI-"fi‘: gion of the Abdomen, which pafling croffways, doth climb over the Trunk 0f the Ovary, being attended with long Productions, which being Membranous, Abilmen. and of a fine texture, do fomewhar refemble in Figure, the Comm ofthe WeEhafigufjff . rm in more perfect Animals. The body of the Womb is beautified with a kind of Orbicular figufea bil'h-Wor‘hlsjn and is furnilhed with two Ducts, the one is above the Womb into which the Eggs are tranfmitted our of the Ovaries; The fecond Duét ls below the body of the ‘Ulerm, which is the Vagina, into which the @2711; of the Therui-x. Book I. Part IV. 0f the Partr of generation in 111/ng. 661 Thole \arious Proceiles are acommodared with feveral Cylindres, impor- ,1,"me ring a different Matter into the membranes of the Ovaries, rendring them "‘0";‘3 fit for Generation , the production of numerous Eggs lodged in divers Membranes, the outward being more thick, refembleth the Claariozz and the inward the Amnian. The Ovaries alto are compofed of divers Tunicles, befet with numerous The Tnnitlcs minute miliary Glands, the Colatories of the Blood, iECerning the finer P3" fisfhwla' of it in order to the procreation of Seminal Liquor. The Ovaries of Inlbéts are endued with many branches of Air-vellels Tl": "HEP fhading the various Tunicles, into which their Terminations are inferred, gtiiicilm importing Air into the fubiiance of the Minute Glands, wherein a Secretion is made of the more delicate part of the Vital Liquor from the grols. Thcl‘c fruitful parts have their luteguments furnilhcd with many Carnous Thcfamous Fibres, giving {trength to the Tunicles of the Ovaries, and a power to con- biiiicgmc trait themfelvcs in order to the exclufion of the Eggs. Inll‘éis hare other Genitals, as Oviduéts, and an "term, in which the Eggs are lodged lometime, and receive greater maturity before they are tranfiuitted into the Virgina in order to exclulion. All rhele various parts are formed by Nature For the pi‘odué‘tion' of Eggs, Thcmlnner which [humbly conceive, are generated after this manner; T he Vital I iqkuor Efgfififf is rranfiuitted into all parts of the Body to give life and uouriihmcnt, where- bilk‘w‘ms' upon it infinuatcth it {elf by fccrct Pores into every minute Particle: So that the remains of the Blood (not ferviceable to Nutrition) receive the fignatures of various parts they have convcrfed withall, and being carried to the Heart by Veins, arc thence impelled by pullations into the Aorta, and afterward by the preparing Arteries into the fiibfisance of the Glands (heated in the Tunicles of the Ovaries) whereing the more fine and gentle part of the Blood is hovered from the more fliarp, and there meetcth with Nervous Liquor and Air (brought in through the terminations of proper Veilt-ls in- ferring themlblves into the glands of Ovaries ) which infpire it with fermentarive Particles, which are afterward carried through the linall paiiagcs of the inward liirfacc of the Ovaries into their Cavities, where numerous finall proportions of Seminal Matter are kept feparare, and afierward encircled with a Coat produced out of the more vifcide concreted Particles of the Genital Liquor. The Eggs of Silk-VVorms big with Seminal liquor, derived from the more delicate liquors of the Blood and that of the Nerves, iiiipircd with Eiaf‘ticlr Particles, are invefted with a thick Membrane Coated with Yellow forrwo days or more, and fame {pace afterward the pregnant Eggs grow blewilh in reference to the Fterm contained in them, which appear through the tranrparcnr Membranes encircling the Genital Juice. The Eggs of Silk-Worms are beautified with an oval Figure {omewhat flat- The figure of rilh+, as having two lateral Cavities; in addle Eggsa much greater depreflion 3,3355}. 7. may be teen, as if they had been crufhed 0r bruilbd. ff Tiltll: Eggs of Irifeéts are not immured within a hard friable Shell, as TheShtlloi‘ thol-l' of Birds, but have a Diaphanous and flexible Coat, like the fhavings Sl'k'm'ms' of Horus 5 So that they may be divided into many Lamiim'; and the out- ward {inflicts oi~ thefe Egos are rendred rough with many minute Promi- Silk-Worm and its Seed is immitted, and through Which the Eggs are car- llfllilcs. _ ried to the Vul'w. The Ovaries in Silk-Worms have eight Productions, which do Coalefce contained in ( hued with .1 yellowiflr colour) which being held over the fire, loieth much "Rwy; into two longer Trunks, ending in one common Duet, through which the Eggs (arriving to a due maturity) are difcharged near the Amff. There The cavities of the Eggs, relating to Silk»Worms, are filled with Liquor The‘Liquor Gssgggss , of |