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:Bath, with an intention to have putrefied it, but after a few days 
He found, the head had not been well luted on, and that fome 
moifture exhaling , the gelly was grown almoft dry, and a large 
; Mujhrom grown out of it within the Glafs. It was of a loofe wa- 
trifh contexture, fucli an one, as he had feen growing out of 
i rotten wood. 
That having feveral Tubs with good quantity of Dew in 
: them-, fet to putrefy in the manner abovelaid, and coming to 
pour out of one of them to make ufe of it,He found in the water 
a great bunch, bigger then his fift^ of thofe InfedtSj commonly 
i called Hog lice or Millepedes , tangled together by their long 
tailes, one of which came out of every one of their bodies , a- 
bout the bignefs of a Horfehair: The Infedts did all live and 
move, after they were taken out. 
That emptying another Tub, whereon the Sun, itfeems, had 
ufed fometimes to fhine, and finding, upon the. (training it 
through a clean linnen cloth, two or three fpoonfulls of green 
fluff, though not fo thick nor fo green as that above mention- 
ed, found in the Glaffes purpofely expofed to the Sun, He put 
this green Huff in a Glafs, and tyed a paper over it, and coming 
fome dayes after to view it, He found the Glafs almoft filled 
with an innumerable Company of fmall Flyes, almoft all wings, 
fuch as are ufually feen in great Swarms in the Aire in Summer 
Evenings. 
That fetting about a Gallon of this Dew ( which, he faith, if 
he mifremember not, had been firft putrefied and (trained ) in 
an open J arre-Glafs with a wide mouth, and leaving it for many 
weeks Handing in a South-window, on which the Sun lay very 
much, but the Cafements were kept cloie (hut , after fome 
time coming to take account of his Dew , He found it very full 
of little Infedts with great Heads and fmall tapering Bodies, 
fomewhat refembling Tadpoles, but very much lefs. Thefe, 
on his approach to the Glafs, would fink down to the bottom, 
as it were to hide themfelves, and upon his retreat wriggle them- 
felves up to the top of the water again* Leaving it thus for 
fome time longer, He afterwards found the room very full of 
Gnats, though the Door and Windows were kept fhut. He 
adds, that He did not at firft fufpe<ft, that thofe Gnats had any 
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