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nine to a Sexangular : And when I view’d them more 
curioufly at their ends, I obferv’d for the moft part that 
one Flefti Particle was . wrapt up in fix others, but not 
regularly, for one took up more place than another;, 
infomuch, that fometimes the outward Flefti Particle did 
not touch the inward but in one point. 
When I cut the afore-mention’d long (lender Flelh 
Particles, either acrofs or obliquely with a (harp Knife, 
I could fee therein a vaft number of exceeding fmall Par- 
tides of which one of thofe Flefh Particles did confift, 
and they were alfo cut a-crofs : And through the Micro- 
fcope it appear’d to me juft as if one (hould fee with 
the naked Eye fmall Grains of Sand lying upon them ; 
and I alfo could difcover the ends of them. In thefe 
mV Obfervations there appear’d to me a great many 
Flefti Particles furrounded with little Figures like Rings, 
and very clofe to one another, juft as if you (hould take 
a common Iron Wire, and twift it about with another 
very fine one : And fuch circular Flefti Particles have I 
formerly obferv’d in the Mufcular part of the Paw or 
Foot of an Gnat 5 but the Rings were clofer to one ano- 
ther in the Flefti Particles of a Whale, than in thofe of 
a Gnat • and if I remember right, the Flefti Particles 
for Fibres) of a Gnat, were as thick as thofe of a 
Whale. How wonderful are fuch Contextures ! 
From the faid Obfervations one may more firmly con- 
clude that when the Mufcles are ftretch’d out, the Flefti 
Particles have no Wrinkles 5 and that when they lye in 
their natural Pofition, then the Flefti Panicles have 
Wrinkles 
I was “above meafure aftbmlh’d at there my Obferva- 
tions, having always imagin’d, that the Flelh Particles 
of very great Creatures, luch as the Whale is, Ihould 
have been compofed of greater Parts, in proportion, than 
others. 
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