Of a CAMELION.                                  '29
which wvere ingendred in its lntejJines, as we difcovered after a Curious
Ex-
amination: For it was found that thefe Stones were fo lig-ht, that being
put
into diftilled Vinegar, they rofe from the bottom of the Veffel when ffirred;
that they did there Dillolve, and that one of diem which cleft contained
in
its middle the head of a Fly, about which the Stony matter was anmai-
Ied.
  This made us to think that the Lienteria which Planarolms Reports, to
be perpetual in the Camelion, was not the Diftemnp~:r of our's, fleiiig that
re-
taining the Ufeful things, it rejeaed thofe only which were Sup-i Mfuolls,
and
not fit to be kept.
  It is true indeed that it voided Flyes. which appeared almoft as intire
ai
it had talen them ; but it is known that this happens to Serpents, which
do
Evacuate Animals whOiole as they have fwvallowed them: And every body
know's that the manner of drawing the Nutritive Juice from the Food, is
different in diirent Creatures; that fome mull Dirolv2z what they Eat;
and therefore they do fitft Clhew it, and afterwards reduce it into Liquor
in
their Stomach ; that others, who Swvallo-w w, ithout Chewing, have a Heat
and Spirits powerful enough to Extrad the Juice they have need of, with-
out breaking that which contains it, even as it is feen that the Juice of
the
Grapes is drawn as well from the Rape, where the Stones remamle whole, as
from a Vat wherein they are bruiled.
  By thefe Obfervations we thought there was not lcfs reafon to doubt of
the Truth of the Propofition, which the Ancients had fiarted touching the
Aerial Nouriflrment of the Cameliox, than we have had to rejea that which
they had eftablifh't touching the cliangeing of Colour which they have faid
happens to it by the touching of the different things which it approaches,
af-
ter having obferved, that except the WT'hite which our Camelion took in a
Linnen Cloath, all the other Colours, wherewith it was covered, proceed-
ed not froml the things which it touched. And it is raticnal to think, that
the W'hite which it received in a cold Linnen Cloath where it was k-ept fiobe
time as under a Cloak, was an effia of the Cold which generally made it
prow Pale, becaufe that very day was the coldeft of all thof& whereon
we ob-
lerved it.
  And to the end that Natural/fls and thofe which Study Morality may not
be troubled for Curious Subjects to exercife their Philofophy, \which they
thought to have found in the extraordinary particulars, which the Antients
had left in Writing concerning the Wonders of the Camelions Nourifbment
and change of Colour, we do think that the new Obfervations of the M-oti-
on of its Eyes, and that of its Tongue, and the manner of changeing Co-
lour according to its Paffions, are altogether as capable of eiploying their
Witt.
  For to demonfirate that Flatterers want Sincerity, and that Vain and
Ambitious Spirits feed on Chimxra's ; it is not necelfary to be true that
the
Cameliox takes all Colours but W4'hite, and that it lives only on Air: And
one
may find as much ground, but with more truth, to Moralize on this, that
the Camelion, wvhich is without Ears, and ainlofi without Motion in moft
of its parts, hath Nimblene's only in the Tongue, w'hich lets nothitng ekape
it, and in the Eyes which call fee all wavs at once.