( I 5 15 ) 
I went another time into one of the Meadows near our 
Town, it confifted of a good Clay Earth, and was as high 
asany oithofeaboutus, I dug out a little bit of the faid 
Earth, iibout thebignefsof a Crown piece, which was 
covered with Clover* grafs, fhort and fine ^ I imagined I 
Ihould find in the top of it fome living Creatures^ faecaufe 
I had formerly found in the rotten wood of a Willow Tree^ 
and in another rotten Plank that had lain in the open Air^ 
fbmecf thofc AnimdcuU which arc ufually found in the 
Water. 
When I came home I dipt away the Grafs from the 
Earth or Clay, and put the top of it in a clean Glafi Tube 
about as big as a Childs Finger, and pour'd upon it boil'd 
Rain Water after it was cold, and having (haken that 
Earth and Water well together, the Water was fo thick 
and troubrdj that I could perceive none of the Animalcnts 
therein, tho there were a great many in it. 
But after the faid Water had flood about half an hour 
in the Tube, I could perceive feveral Ammalcula creeping 
up the fides of it, and others fwimming about the Water. 
This Water having ftood feveral hours, and acquired a 
little more clearnefi, I (aw two^unmlzv AmmdcnU that 
came very near in Figure to thofe that produce /iVl/a 
Wheels out of their Bodi eSj only inftead of fuch Wheels 
they protruded a Horny part out of their Body, which 
they fomecimes drew io, and then thruft out again 5 there 
was alfo one Ammdculum that put ^out two U heeh.^and juft 
by I perceived two other forts of Ammalcula^ hnt imme* 
diatelyldft fight oi them again 3 from whence I concluded^ 
that fo Hioch Water -was-notiiiatural, to' them, and there- 
• fore they were dead^ and' after that the Water had ftood 
thr€€ days upon the Clay., | faw feveral immaleuU that 
were four times a^s long and m thick dinging to the fides 
, af the Qiafs without any motioo/tho they flirrcd about 
briskly at -the firft, 
Aiaaaaaa# 
-I took 
