m the boyling, was of is felf thick and rather blackifti, than oi 
anyo ther clear colour : yet being ftirr'd, it fliin'd , and all ihe 
fifli appear'd^mQre brightly lomioous in their own (hapes. 
Wherever the drops of this water (after it was ftirrd) fcllon 
the ground , or benches , they iliin^d : And the children took 
drops in their haadsjas broad as a peony, ranniag with them a- 
bouc the hoafe.and each drop^bothneer and at diftanee,feem*d 
by their fliioing as broad as a fix pence^or a ftii!!ing,cr broader. 
The Cook torn'd up the fide of the fifli.which was bweft^and 
thence came no fiiiniog : and after the water was for fome good 
time fetled^and folly at reft^it did not fliine at all. 
On Toefday night (^May 9.) we repeated the fame Trialjand 
found the fame efFed:s. The water, till it was ftirr dj gave 00 
lights but was thick and dark , as we faw by day4ight, and by 
candle-light. As fopn as the; Cooks hapd was thruft into the wa« 
ter, it began to have a gh'mmering i- but being gently ftirr'd by 
the hand moving round ( as the Dairy-maids do to gather the 
Curds for GheefeJ it did fo fiiinr^ thaf: they, who look'd on it at: 
fpme diftaocesfrom the further end of another roomj thought... ^ 
veriiy5it was the fhioiog of the Moon thrpogb a Window upon 
a Veffe! of Milk^ and by brisker Circtalation it feem'd to flame. 
The Fifli did then fhine a$.w.el! from th@ Infide , as the Out- 
fide^ and chiefly frem' the 'tlroat^ and fbch places, asfeem'd ^ 
little broken in the^boyl|ng^;^ ^;_, .^^^^^ / ■ 
I took a piecesthat fti!ii''d moftjaod fitted it,as well as I could' 
devife in the night^both to my great Micro fcope^ and afterwards 
to my little one ^ but I could difcern na light by any of thefe ■ 
Giaffes nor from any drops of thefliining water y when pu£" 
into theGlafles. And Ma^ lO. in the brightcft rayes of the Sun^- 
I examin'd, in my great MkrGfc&pe^ afmali broken piece of thev 
Fifh, which fliin'd moft the night before. - We could find no- 
thing pn the forface of the Fifli very remarkable. It feem'd - 
whitifh,and in a manner dried^with deep ineqiiaHties. And o- 
thers,as well as my feifjChought^we faw a ftrcamjrather darkifhs 
thanlum!noos,arifing,!ike av^ry fmall doft^from the fifli: And^ 
rarely here and there^ a very fraa!!, and almoft imperceptible 
fparkle in the Fifli. Yet of thefe fpat\ies ^^c are certain y we 
iiumbred them,and agreed in the number^order and place. Of 
vhcfteam I am not confident^ but do fufpe^fe our Eyes in the 
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