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Bath, with an intention to have putrefied it,biit after a few days 
He fonod^thehead had not been well luted on, and that fome 
moifture exhaling 5 the gelly was grown alnaoft dry,and a large 
Mufljrom grown out of it within the Glafs. It was of a loofe wa- 
trilh contexture, fuch an one, as he had feen growing out of 
rotten wood. 
That having feveral Tubs with good quantity of Dew in 
them, fee to putrefy in the manner aboveiaid, and coming to 
pour our of one of them to make ufe of it^H^ found in the water 
a great bunchj bigger then his fift, of thofe Infedls,, commonly 
called Hog lice or Millepedes ^ tangled together by their long 
tailes, one of which came out of every one of their bodies , a- 
bout the bignefs of a Horfehair: The Infedls did alllive and 
move, after they were taken out. 
That emptying another Tub, whereon the Sun, itfeems, had 
ufed fometimes to fliine, and finding, upon the (training it 
through a clean limien cloth, two or three fpoonfulls of green 
ftufF, though not fo thicknor fo green as that above mention- 
ed, found in th@ Glaffes purpofely expofed to the Sun^ He put 
this green fluff in a Glafi, and tyed a paper over it^ and coming 
lome dayes after to view it, He 'found the Glafs almoft filled 
with an innumerable Company of fmall Fiyes, almofk all wings, 
fuch as areufually feen in great Swarms in the Aire in Suoamer 
Evenings, 
That fetting about a Gallon of this Dew ( which, he faith, if 
hemifreraember not, had been firft putrefied and (trained ) in 
an open Jarre-Glafs with a wide mouth, and leaving it for many 
weeks ftandiL'sg in a South- window, on which the Sun lay very 
much, but the Cafements were kept dole fliut; after fome 
time coming to take account of his Dexn?, He found it very full 
of litde Infed:s with great Heads and fmall tapering Bodies, 
fomewhat refembling Tadpoles, but very much lefs. Thefe, 
on his approach to the Glafs, would fink down to the bottom, 
as it were to hide themf'^lves, and upon his retreat wriggle them- 
felves up to the top of the water again* Leaving it thus for 
fome time longer. He afterwards found the room very full of 
Gnats, though the Door and Windows were kept fliut. He 
adds, thkcHedidaotatfirftfufpeia, that thofc Gnats had any 
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