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fperfed many other fmaller and tranfparent Animals, like 
thofe mentioned but now, as found in the whitilh skum 
that was on forae Rain-water, which had flood a while 
uncovered. 
April the ipth, 1696. 
5. I found another fort of Creatures in the Water 
(fome of which I had kept in a Window, in an open 
-Gla(s) They were as large as I hree of the other, with 
the Green border about their Middies, but theft were 
perfefily clear and colourleft, 
6. Then alfo examining more accurately the Belts or 
Girdles of Green that were about the Animals, menti- 
X)ned above, I found them to be compofed of Globules, 
fo like the Rowes or Spawn of Fifhes, that I could not 
but fancy they ferved for the fame ufein thefe little Crea- 
tures: For I found now fince Aprilxy, many of them 
without any thing at all of that Green Belt or Girdle ; 
others with it very much, and that unequally diminiftied, 
-and the Water filled with a vaft number of (maJl Ani- 
mals, which before I faw not there, and which I now 
looked on as the young Animated Frye, which the old 
ones had flied. I continued looking on them at times, 
for two Days, during which time the number of the 
Old ones, with the green Girdles, decreafed more and 
more; and at laft I could not fee one of them fo en- 
compafled, but they were all clear and colourlefs from 
end to end. 
May the i8th, 1696. 
7. I look'ton fome of the Surface of Puddle- water, 
which was blew^ifh, or rather of a changeable Colour, 
between Blew and Red : In a large quantity of it J found 
prodigious numbers of Animals, and of fuch various 
bignefles, that I could not but admire their great num- 
ber and variety ; but among thofe were none with thofe 
Girdles before-mentioned, either of Green, or any other 
Colour. 8. I 
