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Reafon by the firft managing I got no living Creature 
out of the firft Eggs. 
Therefore I refolyed to pick out the Eggs of the 
Earth, and to mix them with a part of the moid Earth, 
in which they lay before, and put them up in a GMs 
Tube, Hermeticaliy feal'd together on one end, and 
which I ftopt at the other end with a Cork, for to hin- 
der the Moifturefrom drying away from the Earth, but 
that it muft colledt it felf again on the Glals, and drop 
down again to the Earth, and thus the Eggs fliould not 
want Moifture. 
Having done this, I laid the mentioned Tube upon my 
Table, and looked upon it feveral times, and after 
few Days, I faw in Two different Places in the Glafs 
(bmething growing, being Green, and to my Fancy 
like Graft, the ftoot of which I obferved as much as 
poflible, together with vaft Quantities of the little Roots 
that came out of the bigger one, being about Four times 
as big as the Hair of ones Head ; yea, the Number of 
the Number of thefe little Roots was at laft fo great, 
that it would be (carce credible. 
This mentioned thicker Root, did confift of a great 
many very thin little Pipes, which Pipes had again their 
little Parts very like thofe^of the Straw or Reed. 
" I could not think but thefe Vcguables was come forth 
from Seeds of Grafs, that hath been in the Earth. 
Now on the Second of Ai^gufi I faw to my Wonder 
Two little Horn Snails, which we call Wine-year t Snails^ 
fitting againfl: the Glafs, having crept away from the 
Earth, for I had fill'd the Glafs only half full with the 
Earth and thefe Eggs, and its lengrh was about Ten In- 
ches, and its inner Space about Two Third Parts of an 
Inch. 
Farther, I took out of the Glafs Tubs an Egg, or ra- 
ther a Snail, on which a part of the Skin of the Egg was 
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