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6 for the Dreams of a fanciful Head and a ditemper’d Brain. What hould we anwer to thee Men, but that their Ignorance is the Caue of their Dilike, and that if they had tudied thee things more, and viewed the Workds of Nature nicely, they would have fewer Scruples? But few People having had an opportunity of proecuting thee Studies, either for want of Parts, Learning, or Leiure, we cannot blame their Ignorance; and if they reolve to find fault with us for pending time in uch Matters becaue they do not undertand the Ue of them, we mut appeal to properer Judges.

The other ort, when they hear us talk of new Lands, and Animals, and Creatures endued with as much Reaon as themelves, will be ready to cry out, that we et up our Conjectures againt the Word of God, and broach Opinions directly oppoite to Holy Writ. For we do not there read any thing of the Production of uch Creatures, no not o much as that they exit; nay rather we read