Of Eels in blighted Wheat. 



take Life, move regularly, not with 

 a progreffive, but twifting Motion 

 at each End, and, continue fo to da 

 till the next Morning. 



This Qbfervation has been re- 

 peated feveral Times with this Diffe- 

 rence only, that tho' at firft, when 

 the Grains were frefh-gathered and 

 foft, nothing more was neceffary, 

 than to extract the Animalcules out 

 of them, and apply Water; yet after 

 they had been kept fome time, it 

 was requifite 6rft to macerate the 

 Grains in Water for fome Hours, 

 before the Contents were extracted, 

 which upon the Application of Water, 

 as above, would gradually co*ne to 

 Life, of which few or none give any 

 Signs, unlefs they aire fo macerated 

 before-hand. 



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How thefe Eelsfubfift (for fol call 

 them upon account of their being 

 an aquatick Animalcule not unlike 

 the Frefti- Water Eel, with this Dif- 

 ference, that in them both Extre- 

 mities are alike without any Ap- 

 pearance of Mouth or Head) whence 

 they coqie, what they convert ii^to, 



