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tiH 5 a Clock in the Afternoon, at which time I fan? 
fome Animalcnla living 3 but at 1 2 a Clock before, I 
difcover’d a hundred living Animal cul a. for one that l 
faw at 5 a Clock: for between 12 and 5 a Clock, I had . 
made 25 feveral Obfervations, and thofe almoft always 
by making new Inciftoas with a Knife into the Tcfticles, 
and by fqueezing the Matter out of the Incifion, tho 3 no 
bigger than a Pins head. 
Now while thefe Animalcule were fwimming in the 
aforefaid fluid Matter, I obferv’d often thro 3 the Microf- 
cope, that the firft part of their Bodies had a very 
bright glance with it 3 juft as we fee in fmall Fifties 
fwimming in the Water, when they turn upon their Sides 
or Bellies, and caft a glittering brightnefs to the Eye : 
from which I imagin'd, that the upper part of the little 
Bodies of the Animalcule in femine mefcnlino of the 
Rams were flattifh, and that that brightnefs proceeded 
from their expofing thofe flattifh Sides to the fight in 
fwimming. 
The next Morning at 7 a Clock, I viewed the Mat- 
ter of the fecond Tefticle, which I had bound up in a 
Cloth, with my Microfcope 3 but I could not perceive 
any thing that had the leaft Life in it 3 and the Tefticle 
had begun to be corrupted, for an ugly fmell proceed- 
ed from it* 
Now fince we perceive that the Animalcule in the 
Tefticles of a Ram, can live 32 hours after the Pvam 
is deadj we may very well conclude, that the faid Ahi- 
malm! a in Semine Mafculino of a Ram, being admitted 
into that part of the Womb of the Ewe, which is call’d 
Tuba Fallopian a, will live much longer, that being the 
place which Nature has provided for them* From 
whence it may follow, that after the Copulation of the 
Male and Female, the Ammdcula may be 2 or 3 Days 
in coming into- that part of the Womb, where they re- 
ceive their Nouriftmenf, and confequently before the- 
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