268 Sir Everard Home on the influence of the nerves^ 
is so much less readily soluble in distilled water than that 
met with in the brain, that after eight days maceration in it, 
the fasciculi are not so readily separated as those of the 
brain are in two. 
Fig. 7. A portion of a single globular fibre in its natural 
or contracted state, only part of an inch long. 
Fig. 8. The same portion of fibre extended by means of 
the great elasticity of the jelly which connects the globules 
to ^rnore than double its former length. 
