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LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS ‘“‘ LITTLE ANIMALS” 
smaller than fig. A.,* on which I can make out the paws 
too, which are also pleasant to behold, because of their 
swift motions. The paws of these animalcules are very 
big, in proportion to their bodies.” Besides these animal- 
cules, I discovered in pepper-water, some few weeks since, 
yet others which I judge to be a good 1000 times less 
than the animalcule in fig. A: for the circumference of 
the whole body of one of these extreme small creatures is 
no bigger than the thickness of a paw of the animalcule 
in fig. A: and I am persuaded that thirty million of these 
animalcules together wouldn’t take up as much room, or 
be as big, as a coarse grain of sand. 
Ajo ee ie Dee TR oy a ein oee DS a eee 
' Referring to Huygens’s sketch of a small (and unrecognizable) ciliate. 
> Ly. probably here refers to the cirrhi on a small hypotrichous ciliate 
such as Huplotes. 
