A Microfcopical Dtfcovery, j gg 



to be : but examining them with more At- 

 tention, I could perceive with my naked 

 Eye, that they were little tranfparent oval 

 Bodies, about the twentieth of an Inch in 

 Height, having a fmall black Crown or But- 

 ton at the Top of each. They flood up- 

 right in the Mud pretty clofe together, and 

 made a very pretty Appearance. 



Pieafed with this Sight, I immediately 

 placed one of them before the Microfcope, 

 and found the Shape thereof exactly refem- 

 bling a Florence Flafk with the Bottom up- 

 wards, and thereon a round Button or Crown 

 fomewhat depreffed upon the Top, as in 

 the Figure. 



The Body and Neck of the Flafk, if I 

 may term them fo, appeared as if full of the 

 cleareft Water, and were fo perfeftly tranf- 

 parent, that when their Focus was adjufted 

 to the Facus of the Magnifier, the Windows 

 of fome oppofite Houfes could plainly be 

 diftinguiflied through them; and, as you 

 was pieafed to obferve, were reprefented in- 

 verted in the fame Manner they would have 

 O 4 been 



