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ments wherein all the Worms and Eels were, that they 
might be in more moifture, then I put the moifture in- 
to a fmall glafs tube wherein were fix EelSj thinking 
to keep them ahve, and to obferve whether they would 
breed' any young ones- 
Yet I found the contrary, for they did mov^ lefsj 
and within a few hours after fome w^ere quire without 
motion 5 and the other day I faw, after an exaft exa- 
mination, only one part of an Eel lye fo that I could 
find; no likelinefs of an Eel, wherefore I muft con- 
elude that the Eels were diffolved in the water, fo 
that there did remaia only fome ftufF, without any 
%ure or form. 
The Frog had fo moved about in the glafs tube,that 
fie had feparated the dung he had made ffrft, v/hereby 
I came to fee almoft a whole wing of a flying creature, 
having been about the bignefs of a Gnat, and this was 
almoft quite whole, fo that I could fee perfeftly the 
great number of fmall hairs which did grow all over 
the out(ide, and alfo upon the edge of the wing. 
Underneath this wing I faw three of the faid Eelsi, 
and another in another place^ that had ftill a ftrong 
motion in them. 
On die fourth day after the exarements had been 
made, I faw fonle as well above as under the wing, 
being alive, and being that the moifture wherein they 
did lye^ was but very little, fo was their motion but lit- 
tle, and afterward I could perceive no motion at all. 
From thefe obfervations we may very well conclude, 
that the water was- not proper for thefe Eels, but that 
they are come out of the ground, or that the animals 
whereof the Prog made ufe of for its food, were load^ . 
ed.with them*. 
On the fifth day the Frog had dung'd again, and it 
did lye oblong againft the glafs, without any moiftura 
at all, 
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