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manifeft the wonderful powers thereof, fo the univerfe and itls 

 parts are adapted to receive life from the fource of all life, and 

 thus become reprefentatives of his immenfity and eternity. 



The polypes may be as it were grafted together. If the trun- 

 cated portions of a polype are placed end to end, and then 

 pulhed together with a gentle force, they will unite, and form; 

 a fmgle one. The union is at firft made by a fine thread,, 

 and the portions are diftinguilhed by a narrow neck, which 

 gradually fills up and difappears, the food pairing from one- 

 portion to another. Portions, not only of the fame, but 

 pieces of different polypes, may be thus united together. Youi 

 r may fix the head of one polype to the trunk of another. And; 

 that which is thus produced will grow, eat, and multiply like- 

 another.. 



There is ftill another method' of uniting thefe animals together^ 

 more wonderful in its nature,-and lefs analogous to any known- 

 principles of animation, and more difficult to perform. It is, 

 effected by introducing one within the other, forcing, the body 

 of one into the mouth of the other, and puihing it down fo that? 

 their heads may be brought together ; in this Hate it mud be 

 kept for fome time ; the two individuals are at laft united, and' 

 grafted into each other ; and the pplype, which was at firft dou- 

 ble, is converted into one, with a large quantity of arms, and 

 performs all its functions, like another. 



The hydra fufca furnifiies us with another prodigy, to which 

 we know nothing that is fimilar, either in the animal or vegetable 

 kingdom. They may be turned infide out like a glove, and 



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