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of multiplying fome fpecies is affirming what 
has a fabulous appearance. Yet it is certainly the 
cafe with the arm-polypus; and fhall we admit 
that the difcovery is bounded by this animal ? 
The fcalpel need only be applied to others, to 
prove that the fact is wonderfully extenfive. 
Thence are the reproductions of the earth worm, 
the boat worm, the frefh water worm, fome 
leeches, fea {tars, and nettles. While art effeéts 
prodigies on thefe {pecies, nature prepares fimi- 
lar ones in filence. I fpeak of propagation by the 
natural divifion of the dart millepede, many 
races of club, funnel, and bell polypi, and infi- 
nite infufion animalcula. It is alfo found that 
nature fometimes forms not only two from a 
fingle animal, but even four, nay, a multitude 
fo prodigious, that as many arife as there were 
atoms in the generating animal. The polypus 
does not terminate the wonderful progrefs of 
difcovery. It is a chain pafling from vegetables 
to animals, and leads to man. The tremella is 
the link connecting animals and vegetables ; it is 
areal zoophyte. It has been difcovered that the 
filaments of which it is compofed divide fponta- 
neoufly, and that a complete plant {prings from 
each divifion(1). The polypus is joined to the 
tremella, 
(1) Adanfon, Fontana, Corti, Defaufure, and other phi- 
polophers, have difcovered that certain species of tremella 
have 
