on the Polype, 169 



Row. I immediately took its ^ 



Figure as it is here given. 3^^ 



This Creature beino; acrain ex- MM.^ 

 treamly loufy, I bruihed it with -JMs^a. 

 my Hair-Pencil, and hoped by feveral Wa(h- 

 ings to have made it eafy : but in th^ Ope- 

 ration, it flipped av^ay, I knew not how, 

 with the Water, and was unfortunately 

 loft. 



EXPERIMENT XVIII. 



Turning a Poly p e In/ide out. 



7U L T, 6, 1743. Having learned by one 

 of Mr. Tre MB ley's Letters, which 

 you, Sir, received afcer the preceeding Ex- 

 periment, and was pleafed to favour me with 

 a Sight of, that his Method for preparing a 

 Polype for turning Infide out, is, by giving 

 it 2i Chry falls of the Wafer- Tipu la ; which, 

 when fwallowed, diftends the Polype's Sto- 

 mach and Body, and having fomc Degree of 

 Hardnefs, enables him, by gently prefling it 

 from the Tail upward towards the Mouth, 

 and at the fame time pufliing the Tail behind, 

 to return it back again through the Mouth 

 along with the Tail and Body, and thereby 

 compleatly turn it. I was defirous of doing 

 ;he fame Things but being unable to procure 



any 



