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io, like Flies in Copulation. I was furprifed at the hrli 
vie ^ of this, thinking it a fingle Animal of that (hapej bui' 
have fince often obferv'd them both joyn and feparare., and 
2 of them following a jd, fometimes tlie firft, and fome- 
times the 2d laying hold of it, and driving oft' the other. 
I forgot to tell you that the little Feet ofthefe Animaldes 
aremoft diftinguiChable when the Water is juft drying off, 
for they being then ftranded cannot change their place, and 
if you watch that nick of time. You may fee them move 
their Feet very nimbly, and diftinguilh them fome little 
time after the Water is evapourated. 
1 have not rime or room to explain the other Figures in 
the Paper, but you may expeft more by my next. 
OSob. 6. 1702. 
I thought thofe which I calTd Capillary Eeles had 
been peculiar to Pepper-water, but have fince obferv'd 
the fame (rho but few) in fome (landing water which 
dreined from an/ Horfe Dunghill This Liquor was 
Mum-coloured, and the mofl pregnant of all that I had 
ever feen, and it would look incredible if I fhould tell you 
what a prodigious number of all forts I eftimated to be m a, 
quainrity of it of the .magnitude of a Pepper Corn, for they 
appeared as thick as Bees in a Swarm, or Ants on an Hitlock, 
lo that I was obliged to dilute the Water to obferve the 
particular forts. ' I found in this not only almofl all the 
Animilculci. I had feen in the other infuiions, but many 
forts which I never met with before. Among theni were in 
.great number plenty thofe wbkh are reprefenreci''iii'H: their'j 
extream parts look bright, and the middle dark: and' feems 
befet with Briftles, and their Tayl is pointed with a long 
fprig at its end, their motion is flow and wadiing. 
But the prettieft oljeft \i^a3 a great number of a kind of 
Eeks, which appear -moft diftinftiy when the Water is almolt 
dry, which make brisk flioots,.and have a pretty v/righng 
motion, they are of difFereut lengths, and are about the 
thick- 
