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tvjied ootcfkj and in wbicb^ by tc&ion ^icudkB 
Cmallncfs, one couki fee the V/lieels hm nov^.and then,, and 
that only when the laid Body was extended^ which would 
(boa be compreit or fhrunkup. ^ 
^yIoreove^, I obferved one .of thefe ^Animdcula, whole 
Bod^' was fornetimes long,,, and fometimes cootrafted^ and 
al of its Body, which iconceh'd to be the 
lower pait of its Belly, there was another of the fame kind, 
but frialier, the, Tayl of which feem'd to be faftned to the 
other, I caufed one of thefe AmmdcnU (tor the fake of its 
v/onderiul Figure and Generation) tobedrav/nbymyLimner, 
about twice as big as it appeared to the naked Eye, whilft it 
was in the Water^ and faft linkt to the Root pf theaforefaici 
Green Weeds* 
Fig. 9. a, b, c, d.e, f, g, (how yon the Ammdadum of 
which a is riie Tail wherewith it faftens itfelf 5 c, d, e, re- 
prefents 8 Horns, whereas others that were fraaller had but 
6 5 'tis drav/n as ftretcht out in its whole length, whereas 
when it contraded itfelf, it was not the 4th part fo long. 
The Horns appeared of fo wonderful a niake to our Eyes^ 
that It slmpft puxzled the Limner to draw them ^ however^ 
he drew a froall part of one Horo^ as in fig, 10. k, 
In Fig, 9, you may fee an Animdculum K hj corning out of 
,the Body of the bigger, which P^ew^e^<?ir when I firft per- 
ceived,! thought it might be a young Aoimaleulum faftned by 
chance to an old one,| but obferviog it more narrowly, I faw it 
was a Partm.for I could now fee, that whereas this Ammdm- 
Inm (when I firft difcO'Vered it to be) had but 4 very fiiiall 
HornSg afret the fpace of 16 hours was grown much. bigger 
both in llofns' and Body, and 4 hours after that it foriock 
its Mothers Belly, 
In the difcovery of the faid young Jmmdculum^ I had 
obfemd on the other fide of the Body of the biggeft Am- 
mdmhm^ a routed littfe knob of Seed, tb af from time to 
time^ and in a few -.hours grev»^ ftill bigger, as m Fig,- 9. 
betwcTO gffidi andatlaftgrew to pointed, and in ig 
