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you ever faw, and like it in feapes ; and they will con- 
tinue (b, fo iong as they are fame and fick ; but within 
about an hours time, they will gro w plump and well 
again, if you add frefti Liquor to them in time. 
Thefc Animalcule* choofe , for the raoft part , the 
top of the Liquor,* I fuppofe for the fake of the 
Air. 
If you perceive them lye dead upon the Object Plate, 
as I did, and do not remember to add Water to revive 
them, within an hour, they will be dead indeed: But 
you may fee them in the pofture you left them, many 
days after, as I did ; and fhewed others the fame fight. 
Now to give a farther Teftimony , That they are A- 
mmalcula, which fome doubt ; I have noted the follow- 
ing Observations, for the fake of thole that disbelieve 
Microfcopical Experiments: But they may as well deny 
the nib of Spectacles fo well known. 
If you take a fine Needle, and put the point into Spi- 
rit of Vitriol^ (tho* you can fee none of the Spirit with 
your bare Eye upon its Point, when you take it out, 
yet if you prick the fame point of that Needle into the 
middle of that drop no bigger than a (mail Pin's- head, 
when fome Hundreds of thele Animalcula are fwimming, 
very nimbly frisking about, you fliall immediately (ee 
(as i did) theft minute Creatures (if I may Co call them) 
prefently aifeded from the Acid Particles, fo as to* v ^ e 
Ipread themfelves, and tumble down feemingly dead *. ^ 
if you diflolve Salt, and with the point of the fame 
Needle, repeat the Experiment (in the fame man- 
ner) in fome of the fame Liquor that contains fome of 
the fame parcel of Animalcula, you fliall (Be the Crea- 
tures afore- mentioned, be affedted too, flop in their 
Motion, but in another manner quite not fpread flat, 
as thole with Spirit of Pitriol did, but flirink. long and 
- round, in Form and Figure of that we call (whole Oat- 
meal, or) an Excorticated Oat. 
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