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cranules, just as if they were made up of congealed round 
particles.’ 
At G, and hard by D, are shown the rosette-like struc- 
tures which seem to consist of several globules, and 
whereof some are also indicated at H: and though I 
couldn’t see that the structures shown at H were joined 
to twigs, yet they always moved about in the water in 
the same way as the utmost little twigs did. 
No sooner was the water poured out of the glass tube, 
than I forthwith viewed the structure aforesaid: and 
thereupon I saw swimming, between the twigs called BD 
and BE, two animalcules as small as each of the globules 
whereof the structures shown at H are made up: and 
these animalcules then went on swimming, even in the 
little water that had not yet evaporated from between 
the twigs, till my eye wearied with looking at them. 
During this observation I further saw one of the four 
globules shown at H break off, and make off as though 
swimming away, though the distance of its removal was 
not above a hair’s breadth: and this particle which swam 
off was certainly an animalcule, for it turned and twisted 
itself round about several times. And in another globule 
I did also see indeed a little motion ; but it didn’t break 
off from the others, with which it formed the figure of a 
rosette. 
There were, furthermore, many other little bough-lke 
structures which did not lie so orderly: and when the 
water ran off them, they took on the shapes shown in 
Fig. 2, IKL, and Fig. 3, MNO. 
What are we to say about the fabric of these little 
boughs, or tree-like growths? We can’t suppose that 
they proceed from a seminal matter in the water: but, 
with submission to better judgements, we are more 
satisfied by imagining that they are composed of some 
substance which, floating in small particles in the water, 
1 The stalk of Anthophysa is encrusted with brown particles of ferric 
hydroxide, and this is by no means a bad description of its appearance. 
