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the bare eye would feem to be con- 

 fiderably extended by the length 

 of thefaidP/^j 5 which once I alio 

 thought they were^ and that only 

 the reft of them were but (hort 

 and difcontinuouSj and as 'tis faid^ 

 ibmewhat anfwerable to the Cells 

 of an Honey-Comb. This was 

 the neareft we could come to them^ 

 by conjefture, and the afliftance 

 of thebeft Glafles we then had by 

 US3 when upon enquiry into the 

 nature of the Fith : But that 

 Worthy Per(bn newly mentioned 

 Mr, Hool{e fheweth us^ that the 

 Pores of the P/tb^ particularly of 

 Elder 'Tith^ fo far as they are vifible^ 

 are all alike difcontinuous ^ and 

 that the Pith is nothing clfe (to 

 u(e his own words) but an heap 

 of Bubbles. 



Befides what this Obfervation 

 informs us of here^ it farther con- 

 firms what ill the fecond Chapter 

 we have iaid of the Original of the 



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