on the Polype. i6i 



Some of the Arms were injured In the 

 Operation, but how many, or in what Man^ 

 ner, I could not, at prefcnt, be certain. 



About ten at Night the two Side Pieces 

 faifed themfelves on their Tail- Ends, as at 

 (a b. ) and each of them feized a Bit of Worm 

 and eat iti 



The Middle-Piece lay along extended, 

 and feemed exceeding flender in the Middle: 

 it would not eat, but its Sides appeared 

 healed, round and well, like the other two* 

 Its Form is fhewn at (c.) 



a 



•;..,^ j> 



yune, II.— One of the Side-Pieces was 

 fixed by its Tail to the Side of the Glafs at 

 ten this Morning ; the other flood upright 

 at the Bottom of the Water : the Middle- 

 Piece continued pretty much the fame as 

 laft Night. All three extended and played 

 their Arms with a great deal of Life and 

 Vigour, and the Middle-Piece devoured half 

 a fmall Worm with Greedinefs, and was 

 much diftended thereby throughout its whole 

 Length, Part of which however was flill 

 much thinner than the refl. 



At feven in the Evening I gave a Bit of 



Worm to each of the Side-Pieces, who 



catched hold of it and cat it: they looked 



M very 



