on the Polype. 131 



The Sedtlon was as the Fi- 

 gure ihews. 



In doing this fome of the Arms were in- 

 jured. 



Aprils 25.— I found the Body I divided 

 yefterday conjoined again this Morning, at 

 a quarter pad feven o'Clock, without the 

 leaft Appearance of any Wound or Scar, but 

 confiderably fmaller than before 'twas cut : 

 thoi^igh, giving it a Worm, which it greedily 

 laid hold on and devoured, it fwelled out as 

 large as before : and excepting three Arms, 

 that were fnipped off in the Operation, it 

 feem'd in nothing different from Polypes that 

 were never cut. 



Aprils 26. — Three new Arms began to 

 (hew themfelves where the former had been 

 cut away: they continued growing in 

 Length, gradually, till the jfirft Day of M^/, 

 when they appeared as perfedt as any of the 

 other Arms. 



This was a remarkable Inftance how foon 

 the Wounds of thefe Creatures heal; of 

 which I was plea fed to find fuch a plain Proof, 

 tho' I became thereby difappointed as to the 

 Deiign of my Experiment. 



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