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bability ghefs) itfaffords us an Inftance, whereof perhaps there are‘not 
many like in Nature,and that is,of the prodigious increafe of thefe Crea- 
tures,after they are hatch‘d and run about :for a common Wood-loufe,of 
about half an inch long, isno lefs then a hundred and twenty five thou- 
fand times bigger then one of thefe, which though indeed it feems very 
{trange, yet Ihave obferved the young ones of fome Spiders have almoft 
kept the fame proportion to their Dam. 
This, methinks, if it be fo, does in the next place hint a Query,which 
_ may perhaps deferve a little further examination : And that is, Whether 
there be not many of thofe minute Creatures,fuch as Mites, and the like, 
which, though they are commonly thought of otherwife, are only the © 
pul, or young ones, of much bigger Infects, and not the generating, 
or parent Infect, that has layd thofe Eggs 5 for having many times ob- 
ferv'd thofe Eggs, which eleatly are found ‘in great abundance where 
Mites are found , it feems fomething ftrange, that fo {mall an Animal 
fhould. have an'Egg fo big in proportion to its body. ‘Though onthe 
other fide, I muft confefs, that having kept divers of thofe Mites inclofed 
ina box fora good while, I did not find them very much augmented be- 
yond their ufual bignefs, 
What the husk and cobweb of this little white fubftance fhould be, I 
cannot imagine, unlefsit be, that the oldone, whenimpregnated with 
Fess fhould there ftay, and fix it felf on the Vine, and dye, and all the 
body by degrees fhould rot, fave only the husk, and the Eggs in the bo- 
dy: And the heat, orfire, as it were, of the approaching Sun-beams 
fhould vivifie thofe Reliés of the corrupted Parent , and out of the 
afhes, as twere, (asit is fabled of the Phenix) fhould raife a new off 
{pring for the perpetuation of the fpecies. Nor will the cobweb, asit 
were, in_ which thefe Eggs are inclos’d, make much againft this Conje- 
éture 5 for we may, by thofe cobwebs that are carried up and down the 
Airafter aFog (which with my Adcrofcope I have difcovered to be made 
up of an infinite company of {mall filaments or threads) learn, that 
fuch a texture of body may be otherwife made then by the {pinning of 
a Worm. : 
 Obferv. LVII. Of the Eels in Vinegar. 
F’ thefe {mall Eels, whichare to be found in divers {orts of Vine- 
gar; I have little to add befides their Picture, which you may 
find drawn in the third Figure of the 25. scheme: That is, they were 
fhaped much like an Eel, ve only that their nofe A, ( which wasa lit- 
tlemore opacous then the reft of their body ) was a little fharper, and 
longer, in proportion to their body, and the wrigling motion of their 
ah | body feem’d to be onely upwards and downwards, whereas that of 
___ Ecls is onely fide wayes: They feem’d to have a more opacous part 
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