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This water I had ordered to be taken out of the 
itches, on the 30th daj of Auguji 3 and when I came 
honie, and was bufie with viewing the multiplicity of 
tJhefc very fmall animals, that come through the water, 
and that of feveral forts, I faw very many great round 
particles, of the bignefs of a great corn of fand drive 
and move in the water. 
. When I brought thefe particles before the Magnify- 
ing-glafs, I did not only fee that they were round, but 
that the outward skin of them was quite fet over with 
many protuberant parts, which did feem to me to be 
triangular, and pointed towirds the end ^ fo that it 
fcemed to m&, that in the great circle of the round- 
nefs, ftood fuch particles, all orderly and eqaally from 
each other 5 fo that on a fmall body did ftand about 
two thoufand of the before-mentioned convex or pro- 
-tt^bcrant particles. , 
This was to me a very pleafant fight, becaufe tJie 
l|}d particles, as often as I did look on them, did ne- 
ver lye ftill, and that their motion did proceed from 
their turning round 5 and that the more, becaufe I did 
fancy at firft that they were fmaii animals, and the 
fmaller thefe particles were, the greener was their co- 
lour ^ and on the contrary, in the greateft, that were 
as big as a great, corn of fand , there was no 
green colour at all to be difcerned on theoutfide. 
Thefe particles had each of them within included 
5, 6, 7, nay, fome to 12 fmall round globules/of the 
fame ftiape as the body was wherein they were ih- 
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Amongfl: the reft, I did obferve one of the greateft 
round parts fomewhat larger, in a fmall quantity of 
water, before my eyes, and did perceive that the out- 
v/ard part be'gaft to open, and that one of the round 
particles that was within it, and was of a delicate green 
colour^ did .flip out of it, and began to move in the 
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