^iaee this Half-ihce* next after p. i z-. hessre she 3 Mates-

E EfleSLntg upon the length-.of this Discourseconcerning the Original of th es e ’ Btid,te-S ,

1atn suspki&ts timt the vulgar ans inconfide-T * te Reader tots she ready ,to demand, What**«is all this ado i To wbat^rpote fo ma-Words about lo trivial 4 -Subject ? What^fetice hath ,the consideraf ion ot Shells and®°^s of petrified tso.Diyinity i. Where*

1 shall in a few words. shew the great im-s e n anoe 0 f fbii Disqu.ifitt<Humermvg formedand the Determirntiw. of their 'Ori-ginal. ;i \ ■i'i's *\u ^ '

y ^or, i^Jf we adhere i&iheir.Qpwenwho**°tdthem to have sheen ortgjntei ProductionsNature, in imitation only as theS hells andRones of Fishes*. \ We pu^a ffifiapon into. the•^heists hands, fiffordinghim d jhong Argu-^ e nt to py.oveHbat mew Animfils-ihemfelves^■casual. Productions, awdsnos'the effefiSof^sfnsel or Design. For to what itidare thdse°die$ curiously figured and adorned ? is for*s-°ther Ut to exhibit fitch a Farm, for .theintent of the Universe, t>r th gratifie theCkr iqfity of Man ; these are but general <W^^e-reas the parts of every Species of Body are£**ed and fitted to the particular Uses.and^venitnces of that Body; And if Naturej*dd delineate or imprint. Figures xpon -Bo-^ff s i only to be Spectacles to Man, one would

it should mt have made choice of .these* of