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whole length of a Hair would take up too much room 
upon the Paper, 1 caufcd the Painter to draw but the 
half of it, as herein Fig. 2. C. D. 
In the Month of Auguft I ftood by a Fiftamongers 
Shop, whilft they were laying their dry Ling in the 
Water to foften it; and I obferv’d feveral little Crea- 
tures running about upon the Fifh: Whereupon I took 
five of them, and put ’em into a Glafs Tube, toge- 
ther with a little bit of the faid dryed Fifn, which was 
Ling, with a defign to obferve what fort of Creatures 
would be produc’d from them : And after having fhut 
them up for fome Days, I difcovered that they had 
changed their Skins, and that they had made a great 
many Holes in the Cork which ftopt one end of the 
Tube, and had infinuated themfelves fo far therein, that 
one cou’d fee none of their Bodies. And being alfo in- 
form’d, that thefe AtiimaLcula are known by the Furriers, 
and that they do them a great deal of Mifcbief, I went 
to one of that Tracffe, ysrho (hew’d me one of thofe A- 
mmalcula , but endeavour’d, to perfwade me, that they 
were produced from the Fat which grows upon the Skins 
of the Furs. Wherefore to remove the popular Preju- 
dices concerning the aforefaid Animalcula , I caufed my 
Painter to draw the forfaken Skin of one of thofe Crea- 
tures, juft as it appear’d to the naked Eye, as you may 
fee at Fig. 3. between E. and F. 
Moreover, I placed a Particle of the faid Animalculum 
before a Microfcope, in order to view thofe Parts which 
appear like Hairs to the naked Eye 5 and I obferv’d that 
thofe long Particles were encompaffed with other Parts, 
branching or fpringing out of the fides of them, in the 
fame manner as thofe of the Mite and the Bee before- 
mentioned ; and yet as fmall as thofe Parts are, each 
of them hath a Hole or Cavity, in which thofe hairy 
Parts are planted, that ftand upon the new Skin of the 
AnimalcHlum. Thofe hairy Particles were upon the 
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