Lastly, If we still be urged to particularities, and such as declare how, and when the seed of _Adam_ did first receive this tincture; we may say that men became black in the same manner that some Foxes, Squirrels, Lions, first turned of this complexion, whereof there are a constant sort in divers Countries; that some Chaughs came to have red Legs and Bils, that Crows became pyed: All which mutations however they began, depend on durable foundations; and such as may continue for ever. And if as yet we must farther define the cause and manner of this mutation, we must confess, in matters of Antiquity, and such as are decided by History, if their Originals and first beginnings escape a due relation, they fall into great obscurities, and such as future Ages seldom reduce unto a resolution. Thus if you deduct the administration of Angels, and that they dispersed the creatures into all parts after the flood, as they had congregated them into _Noahs_ Ark before; it will be no easie question to resolve, how several sorts of animals were first dispersed into Islands, and almost how any into _America_: How the venereal Contagion began in that part of the earth, since history is silent, is not easily resolved by Philosophy. For whereas it is imputed unto Anthropophagy, or the eating of mans flesh; that cause hath been common unto many other Countries, and there have been Canibals or men eaters in the three other parts of the world, if we credit the relations of _Ptolomy_, _Strabo_ and _Pliny_. And thus if the favourable pen of _Moses_ had not revealed the confusion of tongues, and positively declared their division at _Babel_, our disputes concerning their beginning had been without end; and I fear we must have left the hopes of that decision unto _Elias_. [SN: Elias cum venerit solvet dubium.] And if any will yet insist, and urge the question farther still upon me, I shall be enforced unto divers of the like nature, wherein perhaps I shall receive no greater satisfaction. I shall demand how the Camels of _Bactria_ came to have two bunches on their backs, whereas the Camels of _Arabia_ in all relations have but one? How Oxen in some Countries began and continue gibbous or bunch-back'd? what way those many different shapes, colours, hairs, and natures of Dogs came in? how they of some Countries became depilous, and without any hair at all, whereas some sorts in excess abound therewith? How the Indian Hare came to have a long tail, whereas that part in others attains no higher than a scut? How the hogs of _Illyria_ which _Aristotle_ speaks of, became solipedes or whole-hoofed, whereas in other parts they are bisulcous, and described cloven-hoofed by God himself? All which with many others must needs seem strange unto those that hold there were but two of the unclean sort in the ark; and are forced to reduce these varieties to unknown originals. [Sidenote: _How the complexion of the Negroes may be propagated._]