For Animals multifidous, or such as are digitated or have several divisions in their feet, there are but two that are uniparous, that is, Men and Elephants; who though their productions be but single, are notwithstanding very numerous. The Elephant (as _Aristotle_ affirmeth) carrieth the young two years, and conceiveth not again (as _Edvardus Lopez_ affirmeth) in many after, yet doth their age requite this disadvantage; they living commonly one hundred, sometime two hundred years. Now although they be rare with us in _Europe_, and altogether unknown unto _America_, yet in the two other parts of the world they are in great abundance, as appears by the relation of _Gorcias ab Horto_, Physitian to the Viceroy at _Goa_, who relates that at one venation the King of _Sion_ took four thousand; and is of opinion they are in other parts in greater number then herds of Beeves in _Europe_. And though this delivered from a _Spaniard_ unacquainted with our Northern droves, may seem very far to exceed; yet must we conceive them very numerous, if we consider the number of teeth transported from one Country to another; they having only two great teeth, and those not falling or renewing. As for man, the disadvantage in his single issue is the same with these, and in the lateness of his generation somewhat greater then any; yet in the continual and not interrupted time thereof, and the extent of his days, he becomes at present, if not then any other species, at least more numerous then these before mentioned. Now being thus numerous at present, and in the measure of threescore, fourscore or an hundred years, if their dayes extended unto six, seven, or eight hundred, their generations would be proportionably multiplied; their times of generation being not only multiplied, but their subsistence continued. For though the great Grand-child went on, the _Petrucius_ [SN: _The term for that person from whom consanguineal relations are accounted, as in the_ Arbor civilis.] and first Original would subsist and make one of the world; though he outlived all the terms of consanguinity, and became a stranger unto his proper progeny. So by compute of Scripture _Adam_ lived unto the ninth generation, unto the days of _Lamech_ the Father of _Noah_; _Methuselah_ unto the year of the flood; and _Noah_ was contemporary unto all from _Enoch_ unto _Abraham_. So that although some died, the father beholding so many descents, the number of Survivers must still be very great; for if half the men were now alive, which lived in the last Century, the earth would scarce contain their number. Whereas in our abridged and Septuagesimal Ages, it is very rare, and deserves a Distick [SN: Mater ait natæ dic natæ filia, etc.] to behold the fourth generation. _Xerxes_ complaint still remaining; and what he lamented in his Army, being almost deplorable in the whole world: men seldom arriving unto those years whereby _Methuselah_ exceeded nine