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Moreover under the faid Stuff or white woolly Parts, 
there lay very fmall Particles compofed of exceeding 
flendcr little Tubes or Pipes, which I look’d upon to be 
fmall bits of Straw, and they were fo fmall, that one 
grain of Sand cou’d cover ’em ^ there were likewifc other 
fmall Particles of the fame figure, but I did not take 
them to be Straw, but rather the outraoft Husk or Skin of 
a Grain of Wheat or Rye^ and under thofe I faw one 
Particle cover’d all over with fmall Hairs, fuch as we fee 
at the' top of Wheat or Rye ^ as likewife fome few little 
bits of Wood, fomewhat thicker than a Hair of ones 
Head: there wras alfo a fmall Particle of the outmoft Skin 
of a Man, for I could fee the little Scales of which our 
outmoft Skin is compofed very plainly , Now thefe Parti- 
cles that were not Wcoll, might be vCty eafily brought 
inta the Stocking, in cafe one fets ones bare Foot upon 
the Floor before one puts it on- 
There lay moreover in the faid Matter an unfpeakably 
great Number of exceeding (lender long Particles, which 
I imagine to be thofe hairy Particles, of which a little Fi- 
breof Wool (fetring afide the Bark or Skin of ft^ iscom- 
pofed ; as alfo feveral earthy Particles, which I took to 
be part of the Dirt of the Floor or of the Foot itfelf. 
There alfo lay a great. many particular little Figures^ 
which I could not' difeover what they were^ and thefe 
laft mention’d Particles were fo ftrongly joyn^d to fome 
little Hairs or Wool by the perfpired vifeous Matter from 
the Foot, as I fuppofe, that 1 could not feparate ’em but 
by the help of fome W^ater : amongft others I alfo faw 
two (lender Particles lying, which I ftiould likewife have 
taken for the outmoft Skin of a Man, were it not that 
they were larger than any of the Scales that I could ever 
take from my S in, which are moftly of an equal thic - 
nefs, wherefore I gave over this Thought. In ftiort there 
appear’d to my Sight fo many and fuch particular Figures, 
that there was no Account to be given of them; only I 
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