HL , Natural Mag i ck, 'Bookji.

is begotten of * Boar, is strong and full of stiffs bristles like a Boar; and isnot so soon down in the mud as other Camels are, but helps himself out lustily byhis own force; and will carry twice so great a burthen as others. But the reasonof their name, why they are called Bactrian Camels, is this; Because the first thatever w*J so generated, was bred in the Country of Bactria.

Chap. XII.

Of sundry copulations^ whereby a man genders with sundry hinds of Be a/is,

I Am much ashamed to speak of it, that Man being the chief of all living Crea-tures, should so foully disparage himself, as to couple with bruit beasts,and procreate so many half-savage Monsters as are often seen: wherein Manshews himself to be worse then a beast. I will relate some few exampleshereof, thereby to make such wicked wretches an obloquie to the World,and their names odious to others. Plutark. frith, That bruit beasts fail not inlove with any, but of their own kinde • bat man is so incensed withlust, that he is not ashamed most villanousty to couple himself with Maresand Goats, and other Beasts; for Man is of all other Creatures most leche-rous, at all seasons fit and ready for copulation; and besides, agrees with ma-ny living Creatures in his time of breeding : all which circumstances makemuch for the producing of monstrous, and half-savage broods. And howsoeverthe matter we speak of is abominable, yet it is not fruitleffe, bur helps much tothe knowledge of some other things in the searching out of the secrecies of na-ture. Vlutarkja bis Tract, which he calls the Banquet of the wise men, sheweih,that a shepherd brought into the houses of Periander ,

A Babe gendrti of a Mem and a Marty

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which had the hands, fend neck, and head of a Man, but otherwise it was likea Horse ; and it cried like a young child. Thalti, as soon as he saw it, -toidPenander , that he did not esteem it is a strange aud monstrous thing, whichthe gods had sent to portend aud betoken the seditions and commotionslikely to ensue, as Diodes thought of it ; but rather as a natural! things andtherefore his advice was» that either they should have no Horfe-keepers; orif they had, they should have wives of their own. The fame Author in hisParallels , reporteth out of Ages law his third book of Italian matters, thacPulvius Stella loathing the company of a woman, coupled himself with a Mare,of whom he begat a very beautiful maiden-child; and she was called by a fit name,Efena. A«d the fame reporeth also of

A maiden that was generated of a Man and an Ass ;

for ArifonjtMu Ephestus , the Son of ‘Demonstratus , could not away with awomans company, but made choice of an Affe to lie with ; and she broughthim forth aster a certain time, a very comely maiden, and in shew exceed-ing beautiful: she was called Onofcehs , that is to fay, one having Affesthighes : and this story he gathered out of Aristotle , m the second of hisParadoxes. But Galen cannot think this possible; nay, k is scarce possible-in nature^ seeing a Man and an Affe differ so much as they do; for if'*man should have to do with an Affe, her wombe cannot receive bis seed,because his genitorses are not long enough to convey it into her place ofconceptioni or if it were, yet she would presently, or at least nor long