( 831 ) 
faw fome creatures, which tho they had the figures of little a- 
nimals, yet could 1 perceive no life in them, how attentively 
foevcr 1 beheld them. 
The fame day at night, about II a clock, I difcover'd fome 
few living creatures : But the 3^ of June I obferved many more 
which w^cre very fmall,bnt 2 or 3 times as broad as long. This 
water rofe in bubbles, like fermenting beer. 
The ^th oijune in the morning 1 faw great abundance of li- 
ving creatures ; and looking again in the afternoon of the fame 
day, I found great plenty of them in one drop of that water.^ 
which were no lefs than 8 or roooo,and they looked to my eye, 
through theMicrofcope^as common fasd doth to the naked eye. 
Oh the perceived, befides the many very fmall creatures^ 
fome few (not above 8 or 10 in one drop) of an oval figure, 
whereof fomeappcar'd to be 7 or 8 times bigger than the reft. 
The 6^^/hofe animals were as before^but the 8//^, the oval a- 
nimals were increafed in number, fwiming among the faid very 
fmall creatures; and now they were all very near of one and the 
fame bignefs.The 9^^,the ova! creatures appeared yet in greater 
numbers,but the very fmall ones, in lefs number; and now, ufing 
a particular method in obferving,! noted, that the feet, wherewith 
the animals were furnifh'c, did plainly move, & that with an in- 
credible fwifcncfsrAnd me thought,that now & then I fa w,that 
the globuls, of which 1 faid that the greateft part of iheir body 
was made up, were not perfeflly round , 'but that every one of 
them had a prominent point. Thefe creatures vvere^ to my eye, 
eight times fmaller than the eye of a Loufe. 
Some mxv> Ohferv^ttions made by Sig. Cafilni and deliver d in the 
Journal des "ticzsz^x^^concermngthe WoPUncts about Sdnuru/or- 
merly difcove/d by the fame^a^ appears in iV ^2^of thefe Traits. 
ONe of thefe 2 Planets , which is diHaat from the Center of 
Saturn i o diameters and a half of his Ring.makech his re- 
volution about Saturn in 80 days. He was difcover'd at the Pa* 
rifian Obfervatory^/^jSy i .about the end of 0^,zud in the be - 
ginning of N'cv. in his greateft Occidental digrefTion^ and after 
many cloudy daysiic reafcd to appear, for a reafon which was 
then unknownjbut hach been difcover'd fince, For,affer that ma- 
ny revolutions of this fmall Planet had been obferv'd, he was 
found to have a period of apparent Augmentation&Diminution, 
by which period he becomes vifible in his greateft Occidental 
digrefllon,and invifible in his greateft Oriental digrefllon. 
It is certain, that this viciffitude of Augmentation and Di- 
5 R ' minution, 
