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This water I took from the very furface 5 but when I took up 
any from beneath,! found that not fo full of ihem by far.Obferv 
ing,thac thefe creatures did augment into vaft numbers, but not 
being able to fee them inereafe in bignefs,! began to think whe- 
ther they might not in a moment, as 'twere, be .ijompofed or put 
together : But this fpeculation I leave to others. 
The z6tb of May at night J difcern'd almoft none of the lit- 
tle creatures, but faw feme with ray Is, of which I have fpoken 
heretofore, to have feen them in Rain-water: But there drove in 
thewater throughout an infinity of little parjticles, like very thin 
hair,only with this difference, that fume of them were bent. 
The 2 fth I perceived none at all of the little animals, but 
great number of the bigger. The 28/^, all forts of thofe living 
creatures in this peppery water were grown thinner But the 
^othy I faw very few living creatures in the water, and where I 
now faw but one,Ihad fome days ago feen a hundred. And by this 
time the water was fo dry ed away, that the pepper began to lye 
bare^ And then I fill'd my Thea-difli with Snow-water again. 
Jme I. the living creatures appear'd again in fo great abun- 
dance,as I had ever feen before;but,as to thofe very fmall ones,I 
cannot fay that I faw them.Thofe Ifaw,I could nowdifcern to be 
furnifli't with very thin legSjWhich was very pleafant to behold. 
The fame day I difcover'd a few of the very fmall creatures, 
which were almoft 8 times as big as the fmalleft of all.Thefe had 
fuch a fwift motion through the others,that 'tis incredibleThofe 
bigger animals,that were about 8 times fmaller than the eye of a 
Loufe, were in no fmaller number. 
3. May the 2 6^^, I rook about ^of an ounce of whole pepper 
and having pounded it fmall, 1 put it into a Thea- cup with 
2£-ounces of Rain-water upon it,fl:irring it about, the better to 
mingle the pepper with it, and then fuffering the pepper to fall 
to the bottom. After it had fo ftood an hour or tw'o,I took fome 
of the water,before fpoken of,wherein the whole pepper Iay,and 
wherein were fo many feveral fores of little animals ^ and ming- 
led it with this water,wherein the pounded pepper had lain an 
hour or two,and obferved,that, when there was much of the wa- 
ter of the pounded pepper,with that other,the faid animals foon 
died, but when little, they remained alive. 
June 2. in the morning,after I had made divers Obfervations 
fince the 26th of May^X could not difcover any living thing, but 
faw 
