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Nature of thefe Creatures, as I have done ; for I have 
kept them two Winters (hut up in Glafs Tubes ; and I 
judge that they can fecure themfelves in Wood againft 
the Winter* becaufe they had dug deep into the Cork* 
infomuch, that if I had not hinder’d them, they would 
have bored thro* in feveral Places. 
I threw the faid Animalcule , as well the Living as 
the Dead, together with their Food, being dry’d Wales 
F!e(h, into Water, in the Month of June, 1711. I 
(hall conclude, and with great Refpeft remain^ 
Honourable Gentlemen > 
Tour Humble Servant 
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. 
II. Some 
