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It was to me a pleafant fpedacle to view the eggs, as they lay in 

 the bodies of the Shrimps, for every one of them had in the middle 

 of it a fmall round bright fpot, in like manner as if we Mere to fee 

 with the naked eye, a tranfparent egg, with a Itill more tranfparent 

 yolk in it. 



Having made thefe difcoveries, I concluded for a certainty, that 



when the eggs within the Shrimp's body are come to their full lize, 



that they are foon afterwards emitted out of the body, and, by the 



Shrimp itfelf, fixed to thofe organs commonly called by us its feet, 



and that they are alfo placed as dole as polhble to the animal's 



body, fo as to be no impediment to thofe organs in the performance 



of their ufual functions. But though each of thefe organs is fur- 



nilhed with a number of ftill fmaller organs, yet all taken together 



would not be fufficient to hold fall; and fecure the great number of 



eggs with which they are loaded, nor could thefe eggs be fecurely 



fallened, unlefs each egg had a kind of tiring or ligament, by means 



ot which they are all fattened together, like a chain or llring of 



beads. 



Fig. 38, DEF, reprefents a very fmall portion of thefe e^gs, 



which were dried and placed before the microlcope after being taken 



out of the body of the Shrimp. 



Fig. 39, GHIKL, reprefents the receptacle of the egg, of its 

 natural fize, taken out of the Shrimp : the letters G H K L indicate 

 that part which was in what is called the Shrimp's head, and H I K 

 that part which lay in or next to the folid part of the Shrimp's 

 body. Now, when thefe eggs increafe in lize, then that part, 

 marked GL, in part furrounds the llomach of the Shrimp, and, iu 

 proportion to the quantity of food in the ftomach, it either extends 

 farther or is reprelfed by the diftention of the llomach. 



I have alfo obferved that, when dillected, fome Shrimps whofe 

 eggs which were fixed on the outfide of their bodies had arrived at that 

 maturity that, I judged, they would produce young minute Shrimps 

 in a few days, within the body of the fame Shrimp I could perceive 



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