( i58p ) 
But I find ! am gotten into the Dio^t efTion J propofeci 
to avoid, ar d therefore (begginp; pardon ) I fhill retani 
to our Dea^h^watch, And the next point i (hall confider^ 
foall be 
Of the Noife^ or T/c{wg^ andQopuUtionoftheDeath-^watch, 
In the Tranfa£tion before named, I have plainly fhew« 
ed their Ticking noife to be a wooing Acf^ and that it is 
commonly about Jidy. I fcarce ever heard them beat 
before July. But ali, or the greateft part ofjuljithey 
beat, and in the beginning of Angufl. I have heard 
them till Aug, 1 6. but never later. But they do not eve- 
ry year beat alike ^ but fometimes fooner, fometimes 
later 5 fometimes much, fometimes little 5 according as 
the year excitetli or favoureth, or hindereth their vene.- 
real indinations. Of which we have fufficieoc example 
in thelaft, and prefent year. The laft year 1702 they 
ticked very mtich, fcarce ever ceafing either day or night. 
But this year 1703 as little. And I have obferved as 
great a difference in the fertility of other Infeds thelaft^ 
and this prefent year. And no doubt but the fame befell 
our Death'T^atch, The moft remarkable Difference, or 
at leaft the moft perceivable was in Infeds bred in the 
the Waters. Of v^hich I fliall fay a little, becaufe it fer- 
veth toilluftrate what I am faying about the Death- 
Watck 
Now as to the Waters/it might be obferved, that laft 
year they extreamly abounded wi^h Animalcules. You 
could hardly find any ftagnating Water without many 
Animalcules of many forts therein, vifible even to the 
naked eye. And if you viewed but a fmall Drop thereof 
yvith a good Microkope, you might fee very many morcc 
So that the Water looked in a manner as if alive. 
* But this year 1 have found fomc, but very few of thofe 
Aaimakiiles, either without or with a Miccofcope. The 
