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but I could make no further Difcoveries than what l 
before mentioned 5 and i obfervd foon after that there 
were no Air Bubbles remaining. 
Now when People wa(h their Beer and Wine Glafles 
in fuch a Pond, who can tell bow many of rhofe Ani - 
malcula may remain fticking upon the (ides of ’em, and by 
that means come into the Mouth * which being (o, Peo- 
ple have no reafon to ask me, how the little Animalcule, 
which I obferved fome Years ago in the Matter that re- 
mains in and about our Teeth, came thither. 
Thus far my Ohfervations, which I had made fome 
Years ago, and which within thefe few Days arc fallen 
again into my Hands. 
I can*c forbear acquainting you, that I have lately ob- 
ferv’d in the Flefh of a Whale (and the fame is to be 
(aid of an Ox, and even fo low as a Moufe,) that the Fi- 
bres thereof, altho’ fixteen times fmaller than a thick 
Hair of my Beard, yet are furrounded or involved in 
little Membranes, in fuch manner, that the flefhy Particles 
do not touch each other. 
I am 5 &c. 
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. 
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