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of its Body; and even made its Way with tolerable 
Swiftnefs. One could fee, that this was not a Mo* 
tion without Dirc&ion, a Motion produced by a 
Caufe like that which makes the Tail of a Lizard 
move, after it has been fevered from the Trunk, but 
a Motion quite voluntary, the Principle of which 
feemed not to have been deftroyed : One faw it turn 
afide at the meeting of an Obftacie, fop, and then 
creep forwards again. When thefe T wo Moieties hap- 
pened to meet, it was as if they had never compofed 
one and the fame In fed j they neither feemed to 
feck nor to fly each other; each went on its own 
Way, or, if they went in Company towards the fame 
Place, the Firft generally outran the Second. But 
this latter never feemed to fhew a fort of W ill of its 
own more plainly, than when I expofed it to the 
Sun ; for then it confiderably quickened its Pace. 
I had many times Opportunities of admiring the 
extreme Nicety of the Feeling in thefe Two Moieties, 
and efpecially in the Second. When I appoached to 
it the End of a Splinter, at a time when it was 
quiet, it feemed to wake, as it were, in a Start, 
even almoft before I had touched it. 
Two Days being paft, I thought fit to put into 
the Cup a little Duck- weed and Earth : The 
Firft Moiety foon thruft itfelf among it, but the 
Second was fatisfied with hiding itfelf among the 
fmall Roots of the Weed. I then obferved, that, 
at the Place where it had been cut, there was 
come out a fort of little Swelling, or Knob, ana- 
logous to that which commonly comes out on the 
Branch of a Tree ftript of its Bark. 1 did not diftin- 
guifh this fo well in the other Moiety ; this Knob 
Q^q q feemed 
