6 INTRODUCTION. 



Its extraordinary method of Pro- 

 pagation, which appears to be a true 

 Vegetation, (in which particular I am 

 fatisfied that it differs from the Star- 

 fjh by the Difcovery, upon DifTedtion, 

 of Milt and Roe in the Male and 

 Female of this Species) is a Proper- 

 ty of the fame Nature, equally a- 

 inazing, and not to be explained, 

 tho' in procefs of Time it fhould, 

 as in the amount of our prelent Dif* 

 coveries it cannot be inftanced in 

 Plate VI. any other Animal, unlefs the Bar- 

 *• nacle may be excepted, a fmall tu- 

 biform Animal, which is found ad- 

 hering in Cluflers to Rocks, and the 

 Bottoms of Ships, where they mul- 

 tiply incredibly. 



This Sea-production, by what I 

 thought I might infer from an ac- 

 cidental fight of a Few, which I 

 found dead upon the Sea-coaft, feemed 

 to bear fome Analogy in its Propa- 

 gation to the Frefh-water Polype. 

 The whole Clufier, which confifted 

 of fix or feven in Number, adhered 

 together, and were intimately con- 

 joined by their Extremities, as if fpring- 

 ing, not like Branches from the Pa- 

 rent's 



