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Polype on a Slip of Paper with a very little 

 Water, I thruft the Needle in at its Tail, 

 anddirefted it through the Body and Mouth, 

 in hopes that by the Affiftance of the Knot I 

 might be able to pull the Tail and Body 

 through the Mouth. . 



But though I condudted the Needle and 

 Thread with the utmoft Care and Gentle- 

 nefs, I could not fucceed in my Defign -, 

 for the Roughnefs of the Thread, as it was 

 drawn along, tore or rubbed away the foft 

 and delicate Body of the Polype, the whole 

 whereof adhered to it Hke Birdlime, leaving 

 nothing vifible but the Arms : which being 

 defirous to fave, I cut off the Thread with a 

 Pair of Sciffars, clofe to the Place where it 

 pafTed between them, and then, putting 

 them in Water, eafily pulled away the other 

 Part of the Thread. 



When they were perfeftly difengaged, I 

 placed them before the Microfcope in fome 

 Water, and found that the Needle and 

 Thread had paffed between them, exactly 

 thro' the Center, where they had left a large 

 Hole ; that all the Body was entirely gone; 

 and that nothing remained but merely a 

 round Ring or Circle, with nine Arms (the 

 Number 1 obierved at the Be- 

 ginning of the Experiment) iffu- ^^^^ 

 ing therefrom. The Figure it "^^^^^ 



lyiade was thus. ^* *> 



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