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with a fraall Knife, I mix’d it with a little RairiWater, 
ip order to feparate theJParts from one another : Where-; 
upon I obferv’d in tfe faid Matter a great number of 
♦ long four-fided Particles, moft of them having 4 Right 
Angles, but of different fizes, and many of ’em were 
three times as long as they were broad 5 but I faw none 
of ’em fo broad as the Diameter of the Hair of a Man’s 
Head, and the fmalleft was a hundred times lefs, in fome 
few of which I could perceive no thicknefs. 
All the faid Particles, or little Figures, were as clear 
as Cryftal, fo that I concluded that they were fix’d 
Salts 5 and the rather, becaufe they were fo hard, that 
they were not diffolvM in the Water. And when this 
Matter, which I had fcrap’d out of the Veffels of the 
Whales Penis , had lain a little longer in the Water, I 
difcover’d Salt Particles 5 the two iongeft fides of which 
run parallel to each other, but the two fhorteft Sides 
oblique $ fo that one end of ’em had a (harp, land the 
other an obtufe Angle : And tho’ the Salt Particles had 
Iain at leaft a Week in Water that was frozen, and the 
fame Water afterwards diffolv’d, yet I faw the Salts 
floating in it. 
As many Obfervations as I made, I could not difco- 
ver the leaft Particle that bore any refemblance to the 
Animalcula in Sentine Mafculino . 
The faid Captain having inform’d me, that the Te- 
fticles of a Whale are as big as a Firkin of Butter that 
weighs about a hundred Weight, l intreated him the 
next Whale he took, to cut off the Fa ft Semen deferentia 
as near the Tefticles as he could, and to lay them a 
drying upon a Plank, or to let the Surgeon do it, whom 
they have always on board, and who is fitteft for fuch 
a work ^ for by that means I hop’d to difcover the Ani • 
malcula therein : But as yet my Requeft has not been 
comply’d with. 
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