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Publick, through the fame Channel, fome 

 Obkrvations and Experiments on this Crea- 

 ture, made with the utmoft Care and Atten- 

 tion, before feveral Perfuns of unqueftionable 

 Credit and Difcernment, and written down 

 from time to time with the ftrivfleft Regard to 

 Truth. 



That curious Obferver of Nature, Mr. 

 Leeuwenhoek, firft took notice of this 

 Animal, and the uncommon Way its young 

 Ones are produced, in the Year 1703. An 

 Account whereof was by him communicated 

 to the Royal Society, and made Publick in 

 the 283d In umber of the Philofophical Tranf- 

 aBions: but its more amazing Properties 

 were referved for the Inquifitive and happy 

 Genius of Mr. Trembley to difcover, in 

 the Year 1739. 



This ingenious Gentleman met with the 

 Tolype in his Searches after the minute In- 

 habitants of the Waters 5 and obferving it in 

 fome Refpe6ts to bear the Refeniblance of a 

 Plant, and in others of an Animal, he re- 

 folved, by cutting it in pieces, to fatisfy him- 

 felf, whether of the two it really was; and 

 found, by this Trial, that, after a few Days, 

 each Piece became a perfeifl Body, of the 

 lame Form exadly as I'kat of which it had 

 only been a Part: which Appearance would 

 have determined hini to conclude it to be a 

 Vegetable, had he not difcovered in it at the 

 fame time, a frequent Change of Figure, a 

 Motion from place to place, a greedy and 



voracious 



