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I fct my felf then^ as nicely as I|was able, to difcover 
the truth of this matter, and I laboured the Egg- (hell fo 
long, uiri was fully fat isfy'd, that it was really an Animal- 
culum that lay within it. 
I purfu'd this my operation with (b good fuccefs, that 
I did not only (eparate the Egg-fliell from the Animalcu- 
lum, but in fome of them I could perceive their Legs alfo 
orderly folded up againft their Body, and could feparate 
them from it, efpecially in fuch as were full grown 5 yea, 
in fome of 'em I did even difcover the feveral Joynts of 
the Legs J and this good fortune I had not only in one, 
or ten, but in the fpace of two days, 1 faw the Legs of 
a hundred Animalcula, many of which, in my handling, 
were broken off, and lay by themfelves. 
One muft not imagin, that thefe Animalcula have fuch 
(hbrt Legs as the Caterpillers or Silk- Worms, but the 
unborn ones have, in proportion to their b gnefs^, as long 
Legs, I believe, as thofe that are full grown 5 and as the 
Legs of thofe unborn Animalcula flcand clofe to the Head, 
in that part which one may call the Breaft, fo when the 
faid Animalculum lay flretcht out at length, its little Legs 
could be juft feen peeping out of the Body. 
Thus are they miftaken, who give the name of Worms 
to thefe (at firft) defpis'd Animalcula, and the reafon of 
their Error proceeds from hence, That thro the exceed- 
ing fmallnefs of the cbjed, they are not able to difcover 
with their naked Eye, whether the new teem'd Infeft be 
a Worm, or any other kind of Animal: As for the Eggs 
of thefe Animals, I think, I need not raeafure them, for 
they that underftand Cochineel, may guefs at their fize 
when we aflfert that 200 or more Eggs can lye in fo fmall 
a Particle of matter, as a fingle grain of Cochineel 5 to 
which., if you add the confideration of the great number 
of Blood Veffels lying in fo narrow a Compafs, and that 
each Egg receives its Nourifhment and Increare (as it 
certainly muft) by a String or Artery, yea, and that pro- 
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