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to thde Brine-pitsa tom^ke the Expermeni^ who were fo 
very nice in performing it, that to the eight folds of fine 
Holland y they added as many more ot finer Cambrick^ 
through both which though they ftrained a Gompetent 
Quantity of the i^nWi yet found nothing left inthis very 
clofe Colander^ but a little black du(i, which they imputed 
only to the foulnefs Water:, it being nothing like 
Sandy for having examined the Chath both with their 
fingers and the Microscopes they could feel or fee no more 
of5^^rfthan ifthey had percolated the cleareft Spring wa- 
ters and yet this brirxe iafound to hold in boyling at leaft 
i of as much as Salt, t. e. Brine ihzi fuffices to make 
a bufliel of Sult^ yeilds alfo at leaft a Peck ofSand^ 
But notwithftanding thb Experiment ^ it did not feem 
to their apprehenfions neceffary that the Sandfhonld be 
generated it) the boyling, but might rather be originally 
there for before they {trained it, they obferved in the 
water (by the help of a Micro/cope) a great multitude of 
very minute j^nimals (much fmaller than thofe in/^/^/^^r- 
watery fwiming about in it 5 together with many fmall 
tranfparent plates , fome of them a littte bigger than the 
' j{nimaWs^2iniii(omt\t(Sy but all of a recSlangular oblong 
figure^ though fome indeed f(em*d very near xSquare^ 
which they found alfo in the water zStet ftrainangas thick 
as before. Nor did they wonder at it^ becau fe the pores or 
f^tltlter inleitftices betwfeeA the thre ds of the i^^&^^and 
though they were extr earn ly /w^, ^ppear'd in 
the MicrofcGpe to be exceedingly fthey affirmed they might 
lafely fay twenty titnes^ greater than either thQ Jnimalcle*s 
prPtaes, And theCe they judged to be th^origi^^^ parti- 
clejrhqth^oi^t^eSak^^m Water tm^Q* 
r^tes infcoylihg th^y thought might gather together till 
they ihiade up fueh a vifible courfe body as we fee the 
' greaterT<3rw^/^^ were confirmed 
;Stii:a Ijttie '^m^ Wi dbfetvittg Hvith iatf excellent Mimfcope 
fome 
