Of Eels in blighted Wheat. 



Steeping of the Grains. In efTed:, I 

 myfelf have macerated thefe blighted 

 Grains in a ftrong Brine, as pre- 

 fcribed, and extra&ed the Animal- 

 cules alive, at the end of twelve or 

 fifteen Hours, but after thirty or more 

 could difcover no figns of Life or 

 Motion in them. The Area of the 

 Microfcope containing thefe Animal- 

 cules, as it appears through the third 

 Magnifier of the common double 

 reflecting Microfcopes, and a fingle 

 one as feen through the greateft 

 Magnifier, you have reprefented Plate 

 V. Fig. 6. 7. 



CHAP, 



