Thus works the hand of nature in the feathery plantation about birds. Observable in the skins of the breast,[158] legs and Pinions of Turkies, Geese, and Ducks, and the Oars or finny feet of Water-Fowl: And such a naturall net is the scaly covering of Fishes, of Mullets, Carps, Tenches, _etc._ even in such as are excoriable and consist of smaller scales, as Bretts, Soals, and Flounders. The like Reticulate grain is observable in some _Russia_ Leather. To omit the ruder Figures of the ostracion, the triangular or cunny fish, or the pricks of the Sea-Porcupine. [158] _Elegantly conspicuous on the inside of the striped skins of Dive-Fowl, of the cormorant, Goshonder, Weasell, Loon_, etc. The same is also observable in some part of the skin of man, in habits of neat texture, and therefore not unaptly compared unto a Net: We shall not affirm that from such grounds, the Ægyptian Embalmers imitated this texture, yet in their linnen folds the same is still observable among their neatest Mummies, in the figures of _Isis_ and _Osyris_, and the Tutelary spirits in the Bembine Table. Nor is it to be over-looked how _Orus_, the Hieroglyphick of the world is described in a Net-work covering, from the shoulder to the foot. And (not to enlarge upon the cruciated Character of _Trismegistus_, or handed crosses, so often occurring in the Needles of _Pharaoh_, and Obelisks of Antiquity) the _Statuæ Isiacæ_, Teraphims, and little Idols, found about the Mummies, do make a decussation or _Jacobs_ Crosse, with their armes, like that on the head of _Ephraim_ and _Manasses_, and this _decussis_ is also graphically described between them. This Reticulate or Net-work was also considerable in the inward parts of man, not only from the first _subtegmen_ or warp of his formation, but in the netty _fibres_ of the veines and vessels of life; wherein according to common Anatomy the right and transverse _fibres_ are decussated by the oblique _fibres_; and so must frame a Reticulate and Quincuncial Figure by their Obliquations, Emphatically extending that Elegant expression of Scripture. Thou hast curiously embroydered me, thou hast wrought me up after the finest way of texture, and as it were with a Needle. Nor is the same observable only in some parts, but in the whole body of man, which upon the extension of arms and legges, doth make out a square, whose intersection is at the genitals. To omit the phantastical Quincunx, in _Plato_ of the first Hermaphrodite or double man, united at the Loynes, which _Jupiter_ after divided.