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plainly to fee divided into multitudes of others, cut alfo tranfc 
verfe, the bignefs of which was no larger than a common Sand to 
the naked Eye. Thefe were to clofe crowded together, that their 
Figure was very irregular, as well as their fizes different ; for tho 5 
each feem’d encompaffed with fix others, yetfome of them were 
twice as large as the other. 
Having formerly mentioned the flendernefs of thefe Fibrille 
in the Flefli of a Whale, and judging thefe, as 1 faid before, to 
be four times as large, I took a thin flice of the formerly 
mentioned Whale-fkih ( which I had hill kept by me) and 
after having made it throughly wet, I viewed it with the fame 
Microfcope as i had done this of the Tail. This appear’d as is 
reprefented {Fig. 2.) E. F. 6. H. Letting the moifture dry away 
from thefe flices, fo fluck on to the Glafs, the Particles be- 
came much fmaller, and the Membranes with which each was 
encompalTed, became very vifible ; that is, thofe which were not 
fhrunk away; which was a very entertaining Objed to the cu- 
rious; and as often as I made new Cuts, a new Objed prefen- 
ted it felf. 
A fmail Particle of this Flefli 1 caufed to be drawn, as in 
(Fig. 3.) 1KLM . Thefe Particles feem’d to touch and be 
joined to others ; but now being dried, they fhrunk in from the 
Membranes round about them ; for the Membranes could not 
flirink, becaufe they were all joined to one another. 
Along thefe Flefh-fibres there runs fome fuch thick Mem- 
branes, that they equal the thicknefs of a Hair or more, which 
are fcarce diftant the breadth of a Sand from each other ; from 
thefe larger Membranes other parts are fpread, dividing each 
Fibre into numerous FibrilU ; fo that it may be faid, each 
flefli- Fib e, no bigger than a Hair, is a little Mu cle encom- 
pafled in its peculiar Coat or Membrane, as I have faid beiore. 
Whereas the Defigner had not the fame apprehenfion of the 
flze of thefe Fibres, as I and fome other Perfons had, I made 
him draw a little piece as large as it appeared to my apprehen- 
fion, as in (Fig 4.) A KO. P . whence appears the difference of 
one Man’s fight from another. 
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