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 can be informed how omething of a vegetable or animal Nature can be produced otherwie than from Seed or Egg, I may come over to the Doctor's Opinion; that Corals have been formed by mere Appoition of Particles wah'd out of the neighbouring Rocks: But till then mut believe, that no animal or vegetable Matter can be produced otherwie than by organized Growth: nor is there now the leat Doubt that they are to be ranged in the animal Kingdom. Peyonell, Juieu, and our own acute and. excellent Ellis, have put, this beyond quetion.

It is matter of great concern to me, that I am obliged in this, and ome other parts of this Work, to dient from the Opinions of the Author above-mentioned, to whom the World owes more real and everlatingly true Dicoveries in the Hitory of Foils, than to any one Man beide who ever wrote; and to whom I am myelf o much indebted: in this very Work: But Truth is to be ought for at the Expence of the Opinions of all the Writers in the World; and as Dr. Woodward is an Author o much and o deervedly eteemed, where-ever he is in Errors, few would venture to believe him o, unles convinced of it, either by ocular Demontration, or the apparent Tetimony of the Antients. Where thee have made againt him, there, and there alone, I have ventured to dient from him: and I cannot but oberve, that he has, in this Cae of the Corals, been guilty of that Precipitancy of which he o angrily accues ome other excellent Authors: And when he o everely cenured in this matter, in which himelf was in the wrong, a Gentleman to whom the World is very much indebted in things of this Kind, he hould have conidered that it might be his own Fate to be afterwards treated in the ame manner; and remembered the excellent Spanih Proverb, which advies a Man who has Glas Windows never to throw Stones. LXVIII. The petrified Calamus Indicus alo, is not very different from this. But thee are more properly the Subjects of a different et of Obervations.

LXIX. Beides thee there are alo many Kinds of metalline Stones, ome