fVheat and Barley-water^ and thefeweft in that wherein * 
Baylerries had been fteeped. 
' How fuch vaft Numbers of Animals can be thns (as 
it were at pleafure) produced, without having recourfe 
to Equivocal Generation, feemsavery great difficulty to 
account for. But tho' the fblving of it that way makes 
fliort work of the matter (for 'tis eafie enough to (ay 
they are bred there by Putrefadtion) yet the afTerting 
Equivocal Generation, feems to me to imply more ab- 
furdities and difficulties, then perhaps may appear at 
firft fight : I wilh therefore, that this matter would a 
while imploy the thought of fome ingenious and inqui- 
fitive Man. In the mean time I've Conjedured, that 
thefe Animalcula may be produced by one or both of 
the following ways. 
1. I have thought that the Eggs of fome exceeding 
fmall infefts^ which are very numerous, may have been 
laved or lodg'd in the Plica or Ruga of the Coats of the 
Grain, by fome kinds that inhabit on thofe Seeds, as 
their proper places. For that Infects of the larger 
kinds, do frequently thus depofite their Eggs, on the 
Flowers, and Leaves of Plants, are often experimented 
and 'tis very probable, that the fmaller or Microfcopi- 
cal Infeds do the fame. Now thefe being waihed out 
of the Seeds, by their immerfion in Water, may rife to 
the Surface, and there be hatcht into thofe Animals which 
we fee fb plentifully to abound there. 
2. Or the Surface of the Water may arrefl theftrag- 
Ung Eggs of fome Microfcopical Infers, that perhaps 
were about in the Air, and Being fitted and prepared for 
this purpofe, by the Infufion of proper Grain, or a pro- 
portionable degree of Heat may compcfe fo proper a 
Nidus for them, that they may, by the warmth of the 
Sun be eafily hatched into living Creatures y which its 
probable 
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