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' to my felf.This pepper having Iain about 3 weeks in the water, 
to which I had twice added fome Snow-water , the other water 
being in great part exhaled ; I looked upon it the 24 of -^pr//, 
i676.and difcern'd in it,to my great wonder,an incredible num- 
ber of little animals.of divers kinds ; and among che reft, fome 
that were 3 or 4 times as long as broad ; but their whole rhick- 
nefs did, in my eftimation, not much exceed that of the hair of a 
Loufe.They had a very pretty niotion,often tumbling about and 
fideways ; and when I let the water run off from them, they 
turned as round as a Top , and at firft their body changed into 
an oval, and afterwards, when the circular motion ceafed, they 
returned to their former length. 
The adfon of creacures,difcover d in this water, were of a 
perfeftoval figure,and they had no lefs pleafing or nimble a mo- 
tion than the former; and thefe were in far greater numbers. And 
there was a 3^ fort, which exceeded the two former in number; 
and thefe had tails alfo, like thofe I had formerly obferv'd in 
Rain-water. 
The 4^^ fort of creatures, which moved through the 3 former 
forts,were incredibly fmall, and fo fmall in my eye,that I judg- 
ed,thatif 100 of them lay one by another^they w^ould not equal 
the length of a grain of courfe Sand ^ and according co this eft i- 
niate, ten hundred thoufapd of them cou'd not equal the dimen- 
fions of d^grain of fuch courfe Sand. 
There was difcover'd by me a fifth fl)rt5 which had near the 
thicknefs of the former, but they were almoft twice as long. 
2. The idith of Aprils \ took 2^ounces of Snow- water, which 
was about three years old, and which had flood either in my 
Cellar or Study in a Glafs-bottle well ftopped.In it I could dif- 
coverno living creatures : And having poured fome of it into 
a PorceIainThea-cup,I put t herein half an ounce of whole pep- 
per, and fo placed it in my Study. Obferving it daily until 
the 3^<of May^l could never difcover any living thing in it;and. 
by this time the water was fo far evaporated, and imbibed by 
the pepper, that fome of the pepper-corns began to lye dry. 
This water was now very thick ofodd particlesjand then I pou- 
red more Snow-water to the pepper, until the pepper-corns 
were cover'd with water half an inch high. Whereupon viewing 
it again the fourth and fifth of i^ay^l found no living creatures 
in it i but the fixtb,Idid very many, and thofe exceeding fmall 
ones, 
