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noble and reverend Doctors of Theology, and of both Laws, with their names of a foot and a half long, . . but it is painful to find a direct falsehood gravely affirmed by such a man as Sir Kenelan Digby, and that the story which the Abbé quotes from his works is a direct falsehood, is beyond all doubt, tie says that the Palingenesia of plants is nothing to what he himself had done with animals, being but a shadowy appearance, whereas he had accomplished an actual and substantial reproduction of cray-fish. "Wash the cray-fish well," he says, "to take away their earthiness; boil them two hours in a sufficient quantity of rain water, and keep the decoction. Put them in an earthen alembic, and distil them till nothing more ascends. Preserve that liquor also. Calcine what remains in the alembic, and with the first decoction extract the salt from the ashes, filtrate the salt, and take from it all its superfluous humidity. Then upon