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In the boyling, was of it felf thick and rather black ifh, than of 
soy o ther clear colour : yet being ftirr’d, it fhin’d , and ai! the 
fifh appear’d, more brightly luminous in their own Ihapes. 
Wherever the drops of this water (after it wasftirr’d) fell or, 
the ground , or benches they fhin’d : And the children took 
drops in their hands, as broad as a penny, running with them a- 
bout the houfe,and each drop, both neer and at diftanee, Teem’d 
by their fhining as broad as afixpence ? or a (hilling, or broader. 
The Cook turn’d up the fide of the fifli,whieh was lowed, and 
thence came no fhining : and after the water was for fome good 
time fetled,and fully at reft, it did not fhine at all. 
On Tuefday night {May 9.) we repeated the fame Trial, and 
found the fame effects. The water, till it was ftirr’d,gave no 
light, but was thick and dark , as we faw by day-light, and by 
candle-light. As foon as the Cooks hand was thruft into the wa- 
ter, it began to have a glimmering ; but being gently ftirr’d by 
the hand moving round ( as the Dairy-maids do to gather the 
Curds for CheefeJ it did fo fhine, that they, who look’d on it at 
fome diftance,from the further end of another room, thought 
verily, it was the 'fhining of the Moon through a Window upon 
a Veflel of Milk} and by brisker Circulation it feem’d to flame. 
The Filh did then fhine as well from the Tnfide , as the Out- 
fide, and chiefly from the throat, and fuch places, as feem’d a 
little broken in the boyling. 
I took a piece, that fhin*d moft,and fitted it, as well as I could : 
devife in the night,both to my great Micro fcope , and afterwards 
to my little ones but I could difcern no light by any of thefe 
Giafles ^ nor from any drops of the Alining water , when put 
into the Giafles. And May 10. in the brighteft rayes- of the Sun, 
1 examin’d, in my great Microfcope , a fmail broken piece of the 
Filh, which fhin’d moft the night before. We could find no 
thing on the furface oftheFilh very remarkable. It Teem'd 
whktfh,and in a manner dried, with deep inequalities. And o- 
thers,as well as my felf, thought, we faw a ftream, rather darkifhy 
than luminous, arifingjike a very fmail duft, from the filh: And' 
rarely here and there, a very final! , and almoft imperceptible 
fparkle in the Fifli. Yet of thefe fparkles we are qertakii we 
numbred them, and agreed in the number.order and place. Of 
the fleam. I am. not confident, but do fiifpedt our f yes-in the 
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