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To fatisfy tny felf further, I cut off a piece of the 
Tail from feveral little Butts, in order to view the 
Blood out of the Veflels: For I was not fatisfy 'd that 
the particles in the Blood of Fiflies were naturally 
oval ^ nay, I rather fancy'd that in their perfeftftate 
theyM come nearer to a round than an oval form 3 
going upon this pofition, that the Blood of Fi(hes con- 
lifts of fix little globular Bodies making up the parti- 
cles, as well as that of men and other Animals 5 for I 
could obferve feveral Particles broken in 4, 5, and 
fome few in fix pieces ^ and, what I looked upon as 
very remarkable, I faw oval, and other figures become 
roundifti, and at laft perfeftly round. 
To trace the matter further, I took the Blood run- 
ning from a living Salmon, when it is cut in pieces, 
and put it into a Glafs tube not larger than a fmall 
Quill. 
In a (liort time the Blood in the tube congeaUd, but 
when ie became partly fluid again, I put it into a fmal- 
ler Glafs tube, and having placed it before my eye, the 
particles being in motion, appeared fome of 'em flat 
oval ^ and others, which prefented themfelves to the 
>eye fideways, feem'd a little thick, and thofe whofe 
fide did not direftly face the eye, feem'd a little broad- 
er, without the leaft appearance of any globular 
form. • 
The Blood of a Salmon appears blackifli, by reafon 
of a greater number than ordinary of the redning par- 
ticles. 
I putjome of the fame Blood upon a very clean 
Glafs, and where the particles^ lay thin, perceiv'd *em 
oval, nay, in feveral ovals I -defcry'd little Globes, 
and in fome few, particularly fix Globes. 
Where thefe little globular Bodies were crowded in 
upon one another, the particles of the Blood were 
x-ongeal'd together, fo that.no ovals could be difcern'd- 
nay. 
