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(as he defcribts it) one of the contain^ Globules flip out 
of it, and while the great one lay ftill, for want ut lurfi 
cient depth of Water to float in, this little one that caaie 
out had immediately a very quick rotation on its axe ^ and 
what was moft furpiizing, at the fame time it kept an e- 
quable revolution about the bigger Globe as the center of 
its Orbit, always very nearly at the fame diftance, thol 
could not perceive any Vortex in the Water which bore it 5 
and what is yet more remarkabl?, I fiivv it frop, and then 
make irs revolution round the centra! Body the contrary 
way, the rotation 00 its own axe always continuing. And 
when the Water was fo far evaporated chat all lay at reft^ 
by the addition of new Water the fame motions were re- 
newed. This! thoagh't a very pretty reprefentation of the 
planetary motions about the Sun, and I doubt not but a 
Cartefan Philofopher would not have been a !itd.' pleas'd^ 
to fee in Nature fuch an inftaoce of fuch revolutions of an 
inanimate Body io fuch a medium as Water. Indeed I 
think it not eafy to account for thefe motions of thefe 
Globules, nor will Itofolve the difficulty fay incontradi- 
aion to Mr leeuvph. that I believe them Animate^ tho I 
have formerly feen fome not very unlike them both in 
Ihape and motion, which I am fatisfy'd are Animals. But 
of thofe (among other things)! lafl: year gave an account to 
Sir Ch.Holt^ which I hear \vill Ihortly bepublifla'd in the 
TranfaUions. 
lean at prefent think of no oth^r Obfervatioiis of this 
kind to fill up my Paper, unlefi you Ihould think it worth 
your notice, that I find all the Earwigs which I have exa- 
min'd by a Microfcdpe, infefted with great numbers of 
minute Infefts^ which ftick like Lice on many parts of their 
Bodies, and efpecially juft under the fetting on of their 
Head. They are alike on all, and I never forwid the fame 
on any other Animal, they are white and (hining like Mires, 
but much rmaller, are round back'd, flat bellied, and have 
long Legs, efpecially the two forcmoft. 
