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notice of frequently, being luiwilling to take up any thing for 
truth, but what I have feen divers tiines , and in divers parrs, 
9, Having view'd faftmg Spitle, I found in.that fluid matter 
carried fouie few and thofe very fmall Globuls , of which I 
obferv'd fome to fubfide. I faw alfo therein feveral odd par- 
ticles, foirxof which feem'd toconfift of united GlobuIs.But 
looking upon the Sfitle in the afternoonj found thofe Globuls 
and odd Corpufcies in a greater number. I conclude hence^ 
that aliBojdies made out of Fluid niacrer do coWiiit of G lobuls ; 
and am therefore of opinion, that if a drop of water could be 
placed in the free Air, it would be a perfeftl y round body ^ 
aad confequencly, whenout of any fluid matter in our body 
there arc made confiftenc particles, that they alfo muO: be pref- 
fed together on all fides ; Which preffure I efleem to be grea« 
ter in our Body-^ than if the Water fhould prefs the Air, or 
the Air the Water. And by the fame preffure the particles are 
likewife prefTed together; whereupon muft alfo enfue the 
roundnefs of their bodies* 
I o. The Cuticuk or uppermoft Skin of our Body confifts 
of round parts or fmall fcales, fas far as I have been hicherto 
able to judge :) And I fancy, that the continual growth of this 
Cutictd^ is made in this manner ; if, for example^ you let fall 
upon a white paper a little drop of Gum-water, the water wil! 
inalirtletime/ieamaway, and the Gum will kei^p the furface 
of the drop. Now I imagine this Gum-water to be the hu- 
mors^that are continually emitted outofoui-^ Body ^whence the 
humidity iffues forth from between all thofe round particle s 
or fcales lying clofe upon another, and not thorough porcs^. c s 
many have taught. Like a clofe and well-twifted Cab!e>upon 
which powring continually foQie water, this water will pafs 
throughthe whole Cable and oufe out at the end ; not pafiirg 
through any pores, but making its way about and between the 
filaments of the Cable, and fo getting out beneath. And the 
courfer or more confiftent matter, which I compare to Gum, 
cleaves to the body, and fo maketh the uppermoft skin,whic h 
skin thus grows on from beneath,and s worn off from above: 
And the more tranfparent thefe particles are, the whiter is oiir 
skin.Which yet are but our conjeduresand fufpitions. And the 
