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malcules I then found, moved but little, becaufe the mat- 
ter they were in was full of fait particles, which made me 
judg it to h^Vrine, 
I then cut open the Tejticles and there I found an innu- 
merable cornpany of -^m^/tr^/^x^fwiming among a fort 
of ill fhapen particles, thefe continued alive till the next 
day, tho there were but a fmall quantity of liquor to con- 
tain thent. 
I judge the Bodies of the Animalcules to have been of the 
thicknefsof part ofa hair of my head : If the matter 
they moved in had not been fo thick 1 fhould havefeen 
them much plainer, neverthelefs they are reprefented to 
the belt of my skill in ^Vj^./r// where A B C is Animal- 
cule as it lay in the Watry matter, and moved it fclf there- 
in, fometimes the head appeared to be thicker then other 
times, and often I could fee the Body but from A to B by 
reafon of the thinnefs of the Tail BC. when the Animal 
moved it felf ftrongly, tho the progrefs were but little, 
the motion towards the head was like that of a Snake, 
and the tayle was caft into 5 or 4 Bows. Fig. D is an A- 
nimalcule lying dead, and ftretcht out at length, but in 
thispofture 1 faw but few, for many that were dead lay 
with the fore part of their body bent in,as in Fig, E others 
made as,it were a half circle others had the forepart of 
their Body bent and moved their hinder parts; thefe laft 
I took to be ready to dye. 
The number of Animalcules in all the feed was fo great 
that I judge there might be 10000 of them to one of the 
Females Eggs, the fame computation I formerly made 
oftheM/^ofaC(?^^,butit muftnot bethought that all 
the Animals in the Milt of the Codfijh live together, but 
onlyfuchof themasareneareftthepaffage they are to be 
caft out of, and who have more moyfture about them j the 
reft of them being more remote in the body, and being 
incompafled with a thicker matter, arenotaMve; for tho 
fome fijhesy as the Breame^ and Trout, caft their Milt and 
Spawn in two days time, yet tb^^/?^ J" are abouta Moneth 
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