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fed, and their progrefs forv/ard was diminifhed. 

 The vertical vibration was ftill apparent. 



E X P E R. IV. 



In five or fix hours, the Hquor had almoft all 

 the fluidity it could acquire, without being de- 

 compofed. We then difcovered [pi. IV. fig. 8.] 

 that moft of thefe fmall moving bodies were en- 

 tirely difengaged from their threads. Their fi- 

 gure was oval : They moved forward with con- 

 fiderable quicknefs; and by their motion back- 

 ward and forward, and to every fide, they had 

 now more than ever the appearance of* real ani- 

 mals. Thofe which had tails or threads flicking 

 to them, feemed to have lefs vivacity than the 

 others. Of thofe which had no threads, fome ap- 

 peared to change both their figure and their 

 fize. Some were round ; but the greateft 

 part of them were oval, and a few were thick- 

 er at the extremities than in the middle. The 

 rolling and vibratory motions were ftill per- 

 ceptible. 



E X P E R. V. 



In 12 hours, the liquor had depofited, at the 

 bottom of the vial, a kind of gelatinous, bluifh, 

 (Jf rather afli-coloured fubftance ; and the fluid 



that 



