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ones,whofe body feeiivd to me twice as long as broad> but they 
moved very flowly^and often rcund- ways. ^ 
The -^th, I faw ihem yet in far greater numbers. 
The I oth I put more Snowsvi^ater to the pepper, becaufe the 
former was again fo exhaled, that the pepper-corns began to be 
dry again. 
The i g^Aand i^th^l faw the Jittle creatures as before $ but 
the iS^/^^the water was again fo dryed awayjthac it made me pour 
on more of it. And rhe 2ph^ I difcover'd, befides the aforefaid 
lirtle animaIs,another forr,that were perfefily ovaljand in figure 
likeCuckow-eggs. Me thought, the head of them flood on the 
fbarpend: Their body did confitt^wichin, of io,r2,or i4glo^ 
buls, which lay feparate from one another. When I put ih^kam- 
malcuk in a dry place,they then changed their body into a per- 
fefl round,and often turft afunder, & the globuls,together with 
fonie aqueous panicles, fpred themfelves every whereabout, 
without my being able to difcero any other remains. Thefeglo- 
baiSjwhich in tbe burfting of thefe creatures did flow afunder 
here and there, were about the bignefs of che firft very fmall 
creatures. And rhough asyer I couldnor difcern any feet in them, 
yec me thought, they muft needs befurnifiied with very many, fe- 
ingthat the foaileil: creatures , 'which I faid before to be very 
plentiful in this water, and lay fometimes more than an loo of 
them on one of! he oval creatures, were by the motion, made in 
the water by rhe great ones(thoi]gh to my eye ihey feem'd to lye 
iliil) driven away by them , in the manner as we blow aw^ay ^i 
feather from our mourh.Of the fame oval creatures I never could 
difcover any very little ones.how attentive foever I was toob- 
ferve them, 
The of Miiy obferving this-water again,! found in it the 
oval little animals in a much greater abundance. And intheeven- 
ing of the fame day > I perceived fo great a plesty of the fame 
oval ones, chat 'tis not one only thoufand which * ^^-^ Phenomenon. 
I faw in one drop j and of t he very fmall ones/e^ -«^/^w, c/ihe/Mng 
veral thoufands in one drop 
extraordinary y the sA-h. 
thor hath btlk defired t$ acquaint us ^ith his method of ohftrving, that others confirm fuch Ohftr„ 
vationsmthefi. , 
The 2 5^^^, I faw yet more ova! creatures: And the 26^^, I 
found fo vafl: a plenty Of thofe oval creatures,that I be!ieve,there 
were more than 6 or 8000 in one drop i befides the abundance 
ofthofe very little animals, whofc number was yec far greater. 
This 
