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:,.TIiat I might be farther fatisfied herein, I took mot her 
'f ube that was longer and broader than the firft, and fiird 
It with the fame Water, having firft rinced k once or twice. 
. I viewed this Water alfo feveral times, after it had ftood 
30 hours in the Tube, and again difcovered the fame fort 
of Boughs as compleat and perkd as if you were to fee the 
fame with your naked eye on a Tree, and amongft others 
one in fuch a pofition, as if the thick Branches from whence 
the reft proceeded, lay juft againft my Eye. 
Before this laft Particle I placed a Microfcope, with a de- 
fign to obferve ivom time to time whether it would en- 
creafe in bignefs. 
After the fpace of fix hours I could not find that it was 
grown any bigger, and I obferved that the ends of the 
Twigs, which were about twenty, were laden with little 
tranfparent Bubbles, whofe Diameters were thrice as big as 
the extreme parts of thofe Twigs. 
Now having likewife obferved about the faid Twigs a 
fort ot Tranfparent Animalcula of the fame fize with thofe 
Bubbles,! did fuppofe that the before- mentioned round Bub- 
bles were the fame with thofe Animalcula that had taken 
their ftation on the ends of the Twigs ^ and I was con- 
firm'd in that opinion when I perceiv'd the next day in the 
morning, after that the Water had been 48 hours in the 
Glafs Tube, that moft of thefe round Bubbles were off the 
Twigs, and that a very few of the Animalcula were got 
upon the Twigs, and remain d there immovable, whilil I 
made my obfervations. 
Twelve hours after this! could not fee that the forefaid 
Branches were grown larger ^ but I then obferved that feve- 
ral of the fmall Twigs were again invefled with round 
Bubbles, and an Animalculum that was about fifty times as 
big as one ot the Bubbles,was running on one of cheBranches^ 
and torafmuch as the end of one of theTvvigs, where that 
Animalculum had been, W3S again laden with the faid Bub- 
bles, I concluded, tho I had no ocular proof of it, that 
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