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Beatings began again • this made me conje&ure, that 
they might be about the Chair, and that my ftanding 
*ipon it might prevent them. Upon inclining my 
Head down toward the Chair, I found I was ftill nearer 
and nearer to the Sound, and, at laft, placing my Ear 
clofe to the Sedge Bottom of the Chair, I difcover’d that 
it was ftill further towards the Ground : Upon that, I 
turn’d the Chair’s Bottom upwards, but heard no Beat- 
ings for a considerable time after ^ at length, they be- 
gan again, and, as I caff a diligent Eye over the Bottom 
of the Chair, I happen’d, at laft, to hit luckily upon the 
Place where the Infeft was beating j fo that itdifcover’d 
itfelf to me by its own Pulfations. I was very much 
pleas’d with the Difcovery, and not only flood viewing 
it beat for fome time, but alfo afterwards call’d up o- 
thers to fee it beat, which they did, and that, not with- 
out Admiration. The Manner of its Beating was 
thus. 
It lifted up itfelf upon its hinder Legs, and fome- 
what extending, or rather inclining its Neck, beat down 
its Face upon the Sedge, with great Force and Agility ; 
the Sedge, upon which I found it, was bared of its out- 
ward Coat, for about the Length of half an Inch • the 
Infeft flood upon the inward bulbous Part, and beat 
upon the outward Coat, as if it had been working it 
off as it went j the Impreflions of its Strokes were very 
vifible, the Coat of the Sedge being deprefs’d, where it 
had beaten, for about the Compafs of a filver Penny * 
whether it beat for Exercife, or Food fake, 1 cannot 
certainly fay ^ but very probably it might be for the 
latter ; and I am rather inclin’d to think fo, becaufe 
there were more than one fuch Places upon the Sedge, 
where it had been at work, and where, ’tis likely, k 
might have been a Sojourner for forae Days. 
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