i62 A Courfe of Exf er merit s 

 very well, and had young Arms beginning 

 to appear between the old Ones. The 

 Middle-Piece had alfo fome new Arms, which 

 made a pretty Appearance as it lay extend- 

 ed. It was much longer than the other 

 two, and continued very flender and trans- 

 parent in the Middle. 



yuney 12. — This Morning an odd Ap- 

 pearance prefented ; the Middle- Piece {hew- 

 ed Arms at each Extremity : that is, nine 

 well- grown Ones at the Head-End, and 

 feven fmall Ones at the End that all along 

 has feemed to be the Tail. It lay extended 

 in a right Line, as the Figure (A) (hews. 



In changing the Water this Piece fell 

 afunder, in the Place where it had all along 

 been very thin and tranfparent : both Parts 

 of it, in an Hour after, eredled on their 

 Tails, played their Anns, and v/ere perfed: 

 Polypes^ though One a little bigger than the 

 other: they hkewife feized on fmall Worms 

 as foon as oifered them with Greedinefs, and 

 about two Hours afterwards appeared as (be.) 



*Tis very remarkable, that here are four 

 Polypes from One cut into three Pieces ; and 

 I think, I can be very certain neither of 

 them is a young One puihed out in the na- 

 tural Way. The Middle-Piece becoming 

 Two is what creates the Difficulty > and the 

 moft rational Way of accounting for this 

 h^ by fuppoling that the upper and under 



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