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in it a little animal that wasblackift, looking as if it had been 
madeupof twoglobuls. This creature bad. a peculiar motion, 
after the manner as when wefeea very little flea leaping upon 
a whitepapen fo that it might very well be called a Water-fleas 
but it was by far not fo great as the eye of that little animal, 
which Dr. Smmmerdam calls the Water-flea. I alfo difcovcred 
little creatures therein, that were clear, of the fame fize with the 
former animal which I firft obferved in this water, but of an o- 
val figure, whofe motion was Serpent like» I took further no« 
tice of a third forr^which were very flow in their motion: Their 
body was ofa Moufe-colour, clear towards the oval-point ; and 
before the head,and behind the body there flood out a fliarp lic- 
le point angle-wife. This fort was a little bigger* But there was 
yet a fourth fort fomewhat longer than oval. Yet of all thefe 
forts there were but a few of each, fo that in a drop of water I 
could fee fometimesbuc three or four, fametiiiies but one. 
Jul^ 3 r-afrer I had from the 2 7. of this month viewed this wa- 
ter every day,but perceived no little animals in itjlooking up- 
on it nowj fawan loo, where before 1 had feen but one ; but 
thefe were of an other figure, and n 3t only leffer, but they were 
alfo very clear, and of an oblong ova! figure, only with this dif- 
ference,that me thought their heads ended Oiarper: And although 
they were a thoufand times fmaller than a final! grain of fand,yet 
I difcern'd, that when they lay out of the water in a dry place, 
that they borft in pieces & fpred into 3 or 4 very littl© globuls, 
and into fame aqueous matrer^w ithout niy being able to difcern 
any other parts in them. 
The id and ^th of Jugujl I fa w many of the aforefaid fmall a- 
nimals : but rhe 6th and S/^J did not by far perceive fo many 
of them as before. And thofe few ones I faw the 8/^^were fo very 
fmaljthat even by myMicrofcope they were hardly difceroible» 
Ohfirvations of rvafer^ wbereinwhole Pepper had iayn hfufed 
feveral da^es* 
i.Havingfeveral times endeavoured todifcover the caufe of 
the pungency of Pepper upon our tongue,and that the racher,be« 
caufe it hath been found, that though Pepper had lain a whole 
year in vinegar, yet it retained ftill its pungency ; I did put a» 
bout |<of an ounce of whole pepper in water ^ placing ic in my 
Study, with this defign, that the pepper being thereby rendred 
fbft, I might be enabled the better to obferve what I propofed 
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