182 DROPS OF WATER. 



in any neighbourhood, particularly as water may 

 be conveyed (with care) even from a distance. 

 I believe it is considered safer to fill the bottle 

 in which the water is carried full to the cork, as 

 the motion is then trifling, for the shaking of 

 a half-filled bottle kills all the delicate kinds. 

 When a drop of water, tolerably full of life, is 

 placed under the microscope, all seems confusion 

 to the inexperienced eye, the varied forms and 

 rapid movements cause bewilderment in the mind 

 of those who really wish to make a study of the 

 names, habits, and peculiarities of these living 

 atoms; but after some use of the glass this 

 feeling subsides, and some one specimen attracts 

 the attention, its shape is remembered, refer- 

 ence is made to the illustrations, and there some 



