of Worms Eggs. 6 1 



111 the Months of ^pri/ and May Abun- 

 dance of little brownifli Eggs, about the Size 

 of middling Pins Heads, and having each a 

 Shell, were found in the Mud, amongfl fhe 

 little red Worms wherewith the Polypes are 

 fed. Thefe Eggs you examined by the Mi- 

 crofcope, which plainly difcovered living 

 Worms moving within each Shell. But ths 

 moft furprizing Part of the Story is, that on 

 breaking any of thefe Shells with the Point of 

 a Needle, not only a (ingle Worm, as might bs 

 expedted, but four, five or fix, nay, fometimes 

 eight or nine minute, but perfed: Worms, 

 burfl: out and crawled about nimbly : and it 

 appeared, that each of thefe little Worms 

 had been enclofed in its own proper Inte- 

 gument within the Shell, out of which it 

 forced its Way at the Time the Shell was 

 broke. Thefe Integuments are extremely 

 thin and tranfparent, and may be diftin- 

 guiflied floating in the Water they are view- 

 ed in, or hanging about the Worms, which 

 cannot fometimes, immediately, get from 

 them. 



Here we find Eggs inclofed in Eggs, and 

 feveral young Animals iflfuing from one Egg j 

 Circumftances very wonderful, and what I 

 do not remember to have met with any Ac- 

 count of before among the Works of Na- 

 ture. 



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