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Appearance which a Tube, or rather a Cone, would 
make cut (lopewife. 
I have further troubled you with an odd aquatic 
Animal, fome Specimens of which you will find in- 
clofed, found in (landing Water: I kept fome of 
them in their own Element in the Houfe, but they 
all died in a Day and half's time. They feem to be 
nothing but Skin, and feem no thicker when alive : 
They have the Power (as mod aquatic Infers have) 
of finking themfelves to the Bottom on the Approach 
of a Stick, &c. and fall like a Piece of rotten Wood, 
or Leaf — When taken out of the Water, if laid on 
a Paper, &c. they will fpring away like a Grafiopper. 
I do not at prefent remember ever to have feen them 
before, and know not what to make of them, unlefs 
they are the Tipula t or Water-Spider , not yet arrived 
at its mature State. I am. 
Tooting, March 
9 - 1742 - 3 - 
Tour moft obliged 
and very humble Servant , 
H. Miles. 
P. S. The Animals I fend you were catched Yefter- 
day, and kept in Water in a Glafsj and when 
I had finished my Letter, I went to pack them 
up in Paper, but found none of them left, as 
I thought, at firftj but on a nearer View I 
found they were all colle&ed together in a 
Knot, which I took for fome Filth in the 
Water, till 1 more carefully viewed them, and 
found them hanging together by the Tails. 
