142 ^ Courfe of Experiments 



EXPERIMENT XII. 



Cutting a Polype obliquely^ not quite 

 through. 



lUf-^T, II. — At the fame Time, I cut 



-^*^ another Polype through the Body, in 



its Icontradled State, obliquely, but did not 



entirely feparate the two Parts; with the 



fame View as in the laft Ex- 



_>l^ periment. It hung together 



«^^^^ by a very ftender Piece of 



Skin, and appeared thus. 



In about a Quarter of an Hour it was ex- 

 tended in the Water, and lay along in this 

 Manner. 



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An Hour after, I found it {landing up- 

 right, the divided Parts con- 

 V ..-■' joined, with only a Sort of 

 Scar where the Cut had been. 

 It played with its Arms, as in 

 the Figure; whereupon I gave 

 it a Worm, which it greedily 

 catched hold of. 



Two 



