ON GENERATION. 169 



tails; neither- were there, in the liquor, any 

 threads or filaments. They often changed their 

 figures, and Teemed fucceflively to caft their fkin 

 or outer covering. They daily became fiiialler, 

 and, on the i6th day, they were fo fmall as 

 fcarcely to be viiible. 



E X P E R. XXIII.- 



In the following Ovftober, I opened a ram, 

 and found a great quantity of feminal liquor in 

 the epidydlniis. Having exan\ined it with the 

 microfcope, I faw fuch an innumerable multi- 

 tude of moving bodies, that the liquor feemed to 

 be entirely compofed of them. As the liquor 

 was too thick, I diluted it with water; but I was 

 artonifhed to find, that the water had flopped all 

 motion in the bodies ; though I law them di- 

 ftindly in the liquor, they were all at abfolutc 

 rell. Having frequently repeated the fame ex- 

 periment, 1 difcovered, that cold water, which 

 diluted the feminal liquors of other animals, 

 made that of the ram coagulate. 



E X P E R. XXIV. 



I then opened another ram, and, to prevent 

 the liquor from coagulating by cold, I left the 

 parts of generation in the body of the animal, 



which 



