8 ANIMALCULA OF INFUSIONS, ' 1» 



were much more numerous than in thofe boiled 

 half an hour. 



In vetcheSj boiled half an hour, was an im- 

 menfe number of femicircular bell-lhaped ani- 

 maleula, all of confiderable fize, while in thofe 

 boiled an hour and a half, they were fmall and 

 rare. Some bell-riiaped animalcula might be feen 

 in an infufion boiled an hour, but it gave the 

 eye pain to difcover a few, and thefe mod minute, 

 when it had boiled only half an hour; 



Thofe in a barley infufion boiled two hours 

 were numerous beyond defcription, and large ; 

 part of an elliptic figure, others oblong (i). The 

 infufions boiled an hour and a half had but a 

 moderate number of animalcula very minute y 

 and fome appeared when boiled half an hour. 



There was no fixed rule Vvdth the remaining in- 

 fufions. In buck-wheat boiled an hour and a 

 half were many more animalcula than in any other 

 infufions of it. This alfo happened in the egg 

 and beet feed boiled an hour ; but it is to be re- 

 m^arked, that fewer animalcula were in thefe two 

 infufions boiled half an hour than in any of the refl:. 



Hitherto, the figure of thefe legions of animal- 

 cula has been curforily alluded to. A circum- 



flantial 



( I ) Probably the author means different kinds of ellipfe. 

 At the lame time, there are animalcula, though few, near- 

 ly of an oblong figure. Moit of the defcriptions in all this 

 Traft are fo general, that it is .difficult to afcertain the 

 exad fpecies of animalcula. — Translator. 



