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foofned, that the two outward coats, Wa.the cotninon onej and that 
confifting of n^ijihres were cafily feparated (if it were attempted 
foon after it was taken out of the water) from that to which my 
fearch was deftined , and left thofe reputed annttUr ones naked; 
(though, by the way, too long coftion would pro^e prejudicial on 
the Other hand, by too much intenerating ihifibres,) Thefe at the 
top of the inteftine I attempted to feparate from one another^ and 
wlieti thofe, which had been decurtated by the unequal cutting of 
the knife, were taken off, I found, 
Firfiy that I could not feparate a llngle fibre from his fellows to 
any confiderable diftance, all of them ( to my obfervation ) being 
very fmall , and in thcfeparation running fmaller and fmaller, ar d 
withal by reafon of their implication or ftridier cohefionone with 
another eafily breaking ; but a congeries of them (to be obferved 
cfpecially,though not precifely alwaies,in thofe places, where by 
gently extending the inteftines feveral times , and then letting it 
return again,the cohefion of the feveral jeriesof them became loof- 
ned) which at firft view would refemble a pretty large won Id 
without much difficulty rife together ; the very fmall conftitutiog 
fibres of which clufters yet, if the boiling had been very long con- 
tinued, whereby the compages was very much relaxed, would in the 
raifing be very apt to feparate from one another , and appear di- 
ftinft, by reafon of their Tnfertions, by and by to be mentioned. 
^if^fjW/r» that when, beginning at the top, I attempted the fe- 
paration of one of thefe (fuppofed clufters of to- 
wards my right hand (on that fide of the inteftine , I mean, which 
was turned towards me) a whole ring would come off together, 
(excepting that fome fibrilla , which , rifing from contrary parts , 
decuffated one another at the top in th^t fhafis^ would a little re- 
tain it) v\hich at firft ftagger'd me as to my forementioncd conje- 
flure ; but endeavouring it towards my left , I found, for the moft 
part, I could eafily enough unravel that clufter to a confiderable 
length,x^/^.that of fometimes more than two or three fpans,beforc 
ruption(of the whole clufter I mean,) which yet at laft 'twould be 
fubjefl: to. For, 
T/p/W^,though thofe convolutions,as to tbegreateft part of them 
appeared diftina,yet I found, that from every one of them at fljorr 
diftances fome ^bres did obliquely , and the moft of them , to my 
beft obfervation, according to the courfe of thofe I havementio* 
ned, inftrt themfelves into the next convolution , and become a 
part of it f though withal fome I obferved to have a contrary ten« 
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