Compleat Order they obferve.

Neat Apparatus their Bodies are provided with for this purpose 248.

Natural Venom they inject with their Eggs into
Vegetables to pervert Nature, and produce Balls,
and Cafes 250.

Making use of the fittest Seafons, either
SAll Seasons 251.

When Provifions are moft plentiful and easiest had.
Due Number of Young 252.

Diligence and Concern for their Young, in point of
SIncubation 253.

Safety and Defence 254.

Faculty of Nurfing their Young, by

Suckling them. In which it is obfervable

How fuitable this Food is.

How willingly parted with by all,even the most favage.
What a compleat Apparatus in all Creatures of Dugs,

Putting Food in their Mouths, with their proper Parts for catching and conveying Food 255.

Neither way, but by laying in Provifions before-hand256.

Having in the Fourth Book thus dispatched the Decad of Things in common to the Senfitive Creatures, I take a view of their particular Tribes, viz. of

Man; whom I confider with relation to his

Soul. Concerning which having curforily mentioned
divers things, I infift upon two as fhewing an espe-
cial divine Management, the

Various Genii, or Inclinations of Men, which is a wife
Provifion for the Dispatch for all the World's Affairs,
and that they may be performed with Pleafure 263.0
Inventive Faculty. In which it is remarkable that
Its Compafs is fo large, extending to all things of
Ufe, and occafioning fo many feveral Callings.
Things of greateft Neceffity and Ufe were foon and
eafily found out; but things lefs ufeful later, and
dangerous things not yet. Here of divers parti-
cular Inventions, with an Exhortation to exercise
and improve our Gifts.

Body. In which the things particularly remarked upon
are the

(Erect Pofture 282.

The moft convenient for a Rational Being.

Manifeftly intended, as appears from the Structure
of fome particular Parts mantioned 285.

Nice Structure of the Parts miniftring thereto.
Equilibration of all the Parts 286.

Figure

Figure and Shape of Man's Body most agreeable to
his Place and Business 287.

Stature and Size, which is much the beft for Man's
State 288.

Structure of the Parts, which are

Without Botches and Blunders.
Of due Strength.

Of the beft Form.

Several Bones and Mufcles, c. 298.

Covering of all with the Skin.

Provifion in Man's Body to

Prevent Evils by the

Situation of the Eyes,Ears, Tongue and Hand300
Guard afforded all, especially the principal Parts.
Duplication of fome Parts.

Cure Evils by means of

Proper Emunctories 301.

Diseases themselves making Difcharges of things more dangerous 303.

Pain givingWarning, and exciting ourEndeavours Consent of the Parts, effected by the Nerves, a Sample whereof is given in the Fifth Pair, branched to the Eye, Ear, &c.

Political, fociable State. For the Prefervation and Security of which the Creator hath taken care by variety of Mens

Faces 308.

Voices.

Hand-writing.

Quadrupeds. Of which I take no notice, but wherein they differ from Man, viz.

Prone Pofture, which is confiderable for

1

The Parts miniftering to it, especially the Legs and
Feet, fized and made in fome for

Strength and flow Motion 315.

Agility and Swiftness.

Walking and Running.

Walking and Swimming.

Walking and Flying.

Walking and Digging.

Tra

Carry Burdens, Till the Ground, and other Ufes
Man.

Parts differing from thofe of Man.

Head, wherein I confider

Its Shape, commonly agreeable to the Animal's Mo

tion 319.

The Brain, which is,

SLeffer than in Man 319.

Placed lower than the Cerebellum.

The Nictitating Membrane 3217

Carotid Arteries, and Rete Mirabile.
Nates.

Neck.

Anfwering the Length of the Legs 322.
Strengthened by the Whitleather.

Stomach, 324.

SCorrefponding to the feveral Species..

Suited to their proper Food, whether Flefh, Grain, Heart: Its

Ventricles in fome

One only 325.

Two.

Three, as fome think.

Situation nearer the midft of the Body, than in Man.
Want of the Faftening of the Pericardium to the
Midriff 327.)

Nervous kinds. A Sample of which is given in the diffe-
rent Correspondence between the Head and Heart of
Man and Beaft, by the means of the Nerves 329.
Birds. Concerning which I take a View of their
Body and Motion; where I confider

The Parts concerned in their Motion 333.

The Shape of the Body, made exactly for fwimming in, and paffing through the Air.

Feathers, which are ;)

Moft exactly made for Lightness and Strength. All well placed in every Part, for the Covering and Motion of the Body..

Preened and dreffed 334.

Wings, which are

Made of the very beft Materials, viz. of Bones

light and ftrong; Joynts exactly opening, fhut ting, and moving, as the Occafions of Flight require; and the Pectoral Muscles, of the greateft Strength of any in the whole Body. Placed in the niceft point of the Body of every Species, according to the Occafions of Flight, fwimming or Diving.

Tail, which is well made, and placed to keep the Body fteady, and affift in its Afcents and Defcents 337.

Legs and Feet, which are made light for Flight, and incomparably accoutred for their proper Occafions of

SPerformed by the nicest Laws of Mechanicks.
Anfwering every Purpofe and Occafion.
Other Parts of the Body, viz. the
(Head, remarkable for the commodious
Shape of it felf 341.

Forms of the Bill.

Site of the Eye and Ear.
Pofition of the Brain.

Structure of the

Larynx.
Tongue.

Inner Ear.

Provifion by Nerves in the Bill for tafting and

diftinguishing Food 344.

Stomachs, one to

Macerate and prepare 345.
Grind and digeft

Lungs incomparably made for
SRefpiration 346.

Making the Body buoyant.
Neck, which is made

In due Proportion to the Legs.
To fearch in the Waters, and

To counterpoife the Body in Flight.

State. Of which I take notice of three Things, viz.

their

Migration

Migration remarkable for
The Knowledge Birds have of
STheir Times of Paffage 348.
The Places proper for them.

Their Accommodation for long Flights by long of
elfe ftrong Wings.

Incubation, which is confiderable for

The Egg, and its parts 351.

Act itself; that thefe Creatures fhould betake themfelves to it, know this to be the Way to produce their Young, and with delight and Patience fit fuch a due Number of Days.

The Neglect of it in any, as the Ostrich, and the wonderful Provifion for the Young in that Cafe 354. Nidification. Of which before.

Infects. Which, altho' a despised Tribe, doth in fome Refpects more fet forth the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Creator, than the larger Animals.

The things in this Tribe remarked upon are their
Body 359.

Shaped, not fo much for long Flighrs, as for their
Food, and Condition of Life.

Built not with Bones, but with what ferves both for
Bones and Covering too.

Eyes, reticulated to fee all ways at once 360.
Antennæ, and their Ufe 361.

Legs and Feet made for

Creeping 363.

Swimming and Walking.

Hanging on fmooth Surfaces.

Leaping.

Digging.

Spinning and Weaving Webs and Cafes.
Wings, which are

(Nicely diftended with Bones 365.

Some incomparably adorned with Feathers and ele gant Colours.

Some joynted and folded up in their Elytra, and diftended again at pleasure.

In Number either

STwo, with Poifes.

Four, without Poifes.

Surprizing Minutenefs of fome of thofe Animals themfelves, especially of their Parts, which are as numerous and various as in other Animal Bodies 367. State: which fets forth a particular Concurrence of the Divine Providence, in the wife and careful Provifi on that is made for their

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