19^ bottom of the f olyp^. 



'' Here the young One at its Tail appears 

 " with four Arms, and very longj the two 

 *' at the Sides feem fharp. 



" Sept, 2. — The young One came away 

 *' perfedl from the Tail, and the other two 

 •* continued very thrivincr. 



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'^ I am now going to take notice of fome 

 " Circumftances in relation to the Faculty 

 " thefe Creatures have of removing from 

 " one Place to another, or after their Food 

 " or Prey, which they do not feem to per- 

 " ceive till it has touched them, and then 

 *' they generally catch hold of it, by ex- 

 " tending their Arms or Bodies, the Tail 

 *' remaining fixed to fome Part of the Glafs % 

 *' and when they change Place, I have 

 *' commonly obferved that they do it by 

 " laying their Tails over their Heads, or their 

 *^ Heads over their Tails, for they do both s 

 " the Infedt appearing in a Ring at that 

 *' Time.-— But the twenty-feventh of Au-^ 

 *' giifl^ at one o'Clock, after I had put a 

 *' Worm into the Glafs with the Head- 

 ** Part of a cut Polype which had recover-* 

 " ed the Operation, whilft I was obferving 

 " it play with the Worm, and that had, by 

 J, *' a fudden Jerk, caft itfelf a little Way 



|i *< from the Polype, I thought I faw the 



*' Po/>;/'^ fhoot after it : and it did catch the 

 ^* Worm again. I then took a Magnifier, 

 " (the Focus I think about three Inches) 



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