Efficient to preponderate all the Arguments a-^f l j ^ Je contrary Opinions, though lacknaw-e p e them to le of great force and hard to lefiver ed. and to incline or rather conjl rain me° a ^ ow that these Bodies were either real°*es and Shells of Fishes, or owe their Figurey them, I cannot (to use the Words of F. Co?prevail with my Jelf to believe, thata ture ever made Teeth without ajaw.or Shells® lt hout an Animal Inhabitant, or Jingle Bones ,n .° K °t in their own proper Element, much lejTA strange one. Who even of the Vulgar le -.

0 ding any considerable part of an Animalsy J * c h he sees mt the use of, is not apt present-^ to °sk what it serves for, as by that innate ,r olepsis / mentioned before » presuming it wasmade in vain, hut for some end and use. Sup-pose any of us should snd in the Earth thepleat Skeleton of a Man, he mull le as ere-fflous as the At heiH, if he could believe thatVew there of it self,and never had relationth ^ ^an s %°dy- Why then should we think. 3 . at the entire Skeletons of Fishes found some-.ity,e s in the Earth fad no other Original ? nor^ lJer were any part of living Fishes.

, x }y%If we chuse and embrace the contrary 0-Sh* 0>ti Viz ‘ th e f e Bodies were the real

e ds and Bones of Fishes, or owe their F*-^ es to them,we shallfind that this also is urgedtijh mm y at} d almoH unfuperable Difficulties,e Principal of wbialready trodu-

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