152 EXPERIMENTS 



E X P E R. II. 



"When the feminal liquor became more fluid, 

 the filaments difappeared ; but the fmall bodies 

 were exceedingly numerous [pi. III. fig. 6.]. 

 Their motion, for the moll part, refembled that 

 of a pendulum ; each of them had a long 

 thread, from which they evidently endeavoured 

 to difengage themfelves ; their progreflive mo- 

 tion was extremely flow, during which they 

 vibrated to the right and left. At each vibration, 

 they had a rolling unfteady motion ; fo that, 

 befides their horizontal vibrations, they roll or 

 vibrate in a verticlediredion; which proves thefe 

 bodies to be of a globular figure, or at-leaft that 

 their inferior part is not a flat bafe fuflSciently 

 extenfive to keep them in one pofition. 



E X P E R. III. 



At the end of two or three hours, when th? 

 liquor was more fluid, a ftill greater number of 

 thefe moving bodies appeared [pi. IV. fig. 7.]. 

 They were more free of incumbrances; their 

 threads were flhxorter ; their progreflive motion 

 was more dired; ; and their horizontal vibration 

 was greatly diminiflied ; for the longer th(p 

 threads were, their vibratory motion was increa^ 



fed. 



