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^bree times with the water. And in this I obfervy fome few 
very little living creaturesjand feeing them, I thought they might 
have been produced in the leaden- gutters in fome water,that had 
there remain'd before. Obferv.lll. 
On the fame day, the Rain continuing, I took a great Porce- 
lain-difli, and expofed it to the free Air upon a wooden veflTel, 
about a foot and a half high, that fo no earthy parts, from the 
falling of the Rain-water upon that place , might be fpatter'd 
or dalhed into the faid dilh. With the firft water that fell into 
thedifli, I wafted it very clean, and then flung the water away, 
and receiv'd freft into ic, but couf J difcern no living creatures 
therein; only I faw many irregular terreftrial parts m the fame* 
The 3o»of M^^^afcer 1 hadjCver fince the 26^i',obferv*d every 
day twice or thrice the fame Rain-water,! now difcover'd fome, 
yet very fcwjcxceeding little Animals, which were very clear. 
The '^Mh of Majf^l perceived in the fame water more of thofe 
Animals,as alfo fome that were fomewhat bigger, And I imagine, 
that many thoufandsof thefe 1-ittle Creatures do not equal an 
ordinary grain of Sand in bignefs : And comparing them with 
a Cheefe-mite (which may be feen to move with the naked eye) 
I make the proportion of one of thefe fmall Water-creatures to 
a Cheefe-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horfe : For3the cir- 
cumference of one of thefe little Animals in water, is not fj big 
as the thicknefs of a hair in a Cbsefe-mite 
Ohferv, IV. 
Jufie ^th\ having received, early in the morning, fome Piain- 
v^^atcr in a difb,as before.and poured it into a very clean Wine- 
glafs, and expofed it about 8 of the clock in tke morning to the 
Air,about the height of the third ftory ofmy houfe,to find, whe- 
ther the little Animals uould appear the fooner in the water ^ 
bus ftanding in the Air; 
Obferving the fame accordingly theic^^of June^l imagin'd^ 
;faw fome living creatures therein ; but becaufe they feem'd 
to be but very few in number, nor were plainly difcernable, 1 
had no mind to irufl: to this obfervation* 
The 1 1 of the fame month, feeing this water move in the 
Glafs from a ftiff gale of wind (which had blown for g6 hours 
without intermiffion, accompanied with a cold , that I could 
very well endure my Winter-cloaths^) I did not think,! (hould 
then perceive any living creatures therein ; yet viewing it at« 
5 0^ ~ cenrively 
