Of Eels in blighted Wheat. 



if they fuffer any Change, or how 

 they propagate, I could never learn ; 

 all that I know is, that I have ob- 

 ferved Numbers of them for feven 

 or eight Weeks, which have con- 

 tinued alive only by fupplying them 

 with frefh Water ; others I have 

 frequently left dry for fome Days, 

 after the Water had evaporated, and 

 revived as often by allowing them 

 a frefh Supply; and in general, which 

 to me is a Matter of great Sur- 

 prife, I have had by me now for 

 thefe two Years, and more, Grains of 

 this blighted Wheat preferved dry 

 in a Box, which, tho' after they 

 had been gathered in England had 

 firft pafled a Summer there, and 

 fince that Time a fecond in the 

 hot dry Climate of Portugal^ yet 

 afford the fame Phenomena to this 

 Day without any Manner of Va- 

 riation. 



The furprifing Nature of this Ani- 

 malcule, however inexplicable in itfelf, 

 confirms and enables us to account 

 for the Obfervation of feveral Far- 

 mers, which Mr. Bradley takes No- 

 tice of, that Blight in Wheat, among 

 G 4 other 



