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Polypus that is going to divide, from a little below 
the old Lips, to about two Thirds of the Length of 
the Polypus , reckoning from the Head : but thele new 
Lips are not difpos’d in a ftrait Line, according to 
■the Length of the Polypus , bat run (loping near half- 
way round about. Thefe Lips are known by the 
Motion in them, but which Motion is at fir ft very 
flow. That Portion of the Body of the Polypus-, that 
Is bounded by thefe new Lips, then gathers up itfelf, 
the new Lips mfenfibly draw tog-ether and clofe 5 
whereby there forms itfelf, at the Side of the Poly- 
pus , a Swelling, that is loon found to be the Head 
of the new one, bounded by the new Lips firft dif* 
cover'd. Before this Swelling is grown very remark- 
able, one begins to diftinguifh the two Polypi which 
are forming themfelves ; and when that Swelling is 
conftderably increafed, the two Polypi will be difeo- 
vered, no longer joined but by a (mall Portion toeach 
other. The fuperior Pol, pus no longer adheres to 
the inferior one, but by its pofterior Extremity, which 
is (fill fixed on one Side of the inferior Polypus : 
The fuperior Polypus then begins to make Motions 
that feemingly tend to the feparating of him from 
the other and in a little time he becomes quite 
detach’d, fwims away, and fixes himfelf elfc where. 
I have feen one come and fix at the Side of the in- 
ferior Polypus , from which he was juft before fepa- 
rared. The inferior Polypus remains fixed in the 
fame Place, where the Polypus was that is now di- 
vided, and of which he was only the Half, before 
the Divifion took place. 
I am not, at prefent, able to enter into a further 
Derail of the Manner in which thefe Tunnel-like 
Polypi divide and multiply themfelves, I could not 
do 
