190 A Courfe of Experiments ^ 



" The outer Skin was greatly lefTen'd, 

 *' but there appeared a Break quite acrofs 

 " the Gut of the Polype, eafily difcerned 

 " through the Skin, a little below the de- 

 ** pendent young One at (a) . 



" I make no doubt, you know that 

 " when a Polype dies it diflblves in ihe Wa- j 

 ** ter: now, whether this outer Skin has 

 *' done fo, or that at the Beginning it was 

 '* a Swelling which abated by the Change of 

 *' the Water, I fhall not determine : altho' -j 

 ** its firft feeming to draw downwards tb- 

 *^ wards the Tail, and decreafing upwards 

 •^ towards the Head, would induce one to 

 ** fufped; fomething of the Infedi's calling 

 ** the Skin hurt by the Lime- Water. 



" The other Particular I prdpofcd to meri- 

 *' tion, is this; a Polype which bad two of 

 " its Arms cut off, but without touching 

 *' the Head, appeared upon Eximinatlon, 

 " the thirty-fir ft of Augu'\ of fo odd a 

 *' Shape, with a young One growing ex^dl- 

 " ly at its Tail, and a little ProtubeiTnce on 

 *' each Side, that I thought proper to give 

 *• its Figure, as follows. 



" The 



