1. Tm Letters fmn a Gentleman in the Country, relating 
h Mr Tjcimtnhocck's Letter in Tranfadion, No. 
% 8 5 ^ Cofnmunicated hy Mr C. 
June 21. 
Bear Sir^ 
YOurs of the loth inftant found me at IV. where I alfo 
met the Traafaft, No. which you fent laft. 
Finding fomething in it ivomMrLeenmnhoeckJ. greedily run 
it over^ and muft own that I was a little mortified to fee in. 
it an account of a Greature which I thought I had a fort of 
Propriety in, and of which I had made a Draught, with a 
defign to prefent you and Mr C. with a rarity, which I be- 
lieved no body had met with but my felf. Ho wcver^Mr jL s 
Figure of it being fo fmall, I thought my Sketches would 
not be unacceptable, becaufe they not only confirm his 
account, but may contribute to give you a more perfeft 
Idea of fo odd an Animal : I found it the beginnirg of this 
Month in fome clear Water, which I took up in a Ditch at 
W. in which, with my utmoft attention, I could difcover 
no more than this one of the ftme kind. Fig, I. reprefents 
it in one of the poftures it appeared the firfl- d^ y (for it varies 
i^very moment^ and the knob at jpbieh lookt like the 
Gut c(Bcum^ was fometimes a little more lengthened 5 two 
<iays after I could perceive two or three white fibres at the 
end of it, and on the fourth day, the Animal lying ftretch'd 
at its full length, appear d as in Fig. II. and I plaiilly faw, 
that what I thought an excrefcence was a young ohe, with 
6 horns coming out of the fide of the old one, and the 
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