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coloured liquor by the same artery; and then not only the small arteries appeared 

 filled with this tinged liquor, but he found also that the liquor passed through 

 each fibre, either in a serpentine manner, or undulating, or forming several 

 angles, or joined by a great number of anastomoses. He observed also, that 

 many small branches of the arteries, which before could not be seen, appeared 

 visibly, spread all round the little fibrils, and tinged with the same colour. 

 Having remarked, that the parts of the fleshy fibres, which were near the 

 extremities of the arteries, appeared tinged with the liquor, he examined them 

 with a microscope, and found the little fibrils filled and tinged with the same 

 liquor, and yet there was not the least appearance of the liquor in the interstices 

 between the fibrils. 



Having made injections by the crural artery, of another coloured liquor, in 

 the muscles, whitened, as before, with water, he saw not only the fibres in 

 some of the muscles, and the most part of them in the others filled with this 

 matter; but having examined them with a good microscope, he found the fibrils 

 and even the least tubuli which compose them, filled and tinged with the same 

 matter; and yet the small ramifications of the nerves appeared perfectly white. 



It results from all these observations, 1st. That the small tubes, which make 

 a fibril, are really hollow, and that the extremities of the capillary arteries open 

 into them, and empty there a part of their liquor^ which is reconveyed by the 

 veins to the heart. 2d. That the blood globules must be divided into an almost 

 infinite degree of smallness, before they can enter and pass these tubuli. That 

 the blood globules may be so divided, and when so divided, pass through the 

 small tubuli, is evident from the redness of the fibres and fibrils of animals, 

 which have a red flesh; which will be no surprise to those who have read Mr. 

 Leuwenhoeck's letter, where he says, that these globules divide themselves after 

 this manner, to pass through the last extremities ©f the capillary arteries of the 

 brain, nor to those who know that the globules are extremely soft, and easily 

 separable, as M. Muys has evinced by arguments grounded on very curious 

 observations. 



An Account of several Observations made in New England, in 1712. Bt/ Dr, 



Mather. N° 339, p. 62. 



Dr. Mather inclines to the opinion of there having been, in the antediluvian 

 world, giants, or men of very large and prodigious stature, by the bones and 

 teeth of some large animals, found in Albany, in New England, which he 

 judges to be human ; particularly a tooth, which was a very large grinder, 

 weighing 4 pounds and 3 quarters, with a bone, supposed to be a thigh-bone, 

 17 feet long. He also mentions another tooth, broad and flat like a fore-tooth. 



