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many fmall living Animals ; and the Mufcle it felf had 
two thin Films, confiding of long (lender fhreds, with 
little knobby parts thereon, fomething like the Beards 
oi Fins of OyHers, but were more eahly (eparable from 
the Fifli : Thefe Strings were thick befet with Hairs 
continually moving ; and through the Threds them- 
ielves I (aw a great number of (mall Animals. 
In the Liquor in Oyfiers I found feveral forts of 
Amalcules, but in their Beards or Gills none, poflibly 
becaufe the Oytters were dead. 
Examining the Sap that bleedsjrom Vines, I found 
therein (everal Amalcules of different fizes, fuch as I 
had formerly obferved in Water. And I (uppofe that 
the Sun may have raifed the very fmall Eggs of thefe 
Amalcules, and let them fall in Dew or Rain on the out- 
fides of Vines which ftopt by the Leathers that faften 
them to the Wall, are there hatch'd and carried down 
with the trickling Sap,which I am confirmed in, by rea- 
fon after Rain I found of thefe Amalcules in the Water (b 
ftopt by the Leathers; and at other times I have found 
no Amalcules in the S-ap of Vines. 
I have fometimes found in this Sap an Aurelia, fuch 
as Fig. 5. but a Million of times (mailer than a courfe 
Sand. Some of thefe I brought home, but thofe in the 
Air dried up to nothing, and feme that I kept in Water 
were loft. 
V. Some Obfervations in the Diffe&ion of a 
Ratt, communicated by Mr. R, VV. S.R & 
Ttt E Fore- Feet of a Rat refemble thofe of the Ca- 
ft or. The Hair is alfo (ome Fine, (bme Courfe; 
zs in that Animal The Tail fialy, with Hairs between 
every 
