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Multitude of other Observations I have by me in 
my Journals, upon Infufions and other vegetating 
Iflands for the Efl'ay, which I hope to publifh in 
fome Months, if thefe few Thoughts and Difcoveries 
fhall meet with Approbation. See Fig . 3 . 
§ 29. Yet muft I trefpafs for a few Pages more; 
1 cannot conclude this Letter without laying down 
fome general Truths, and recalling thefe Scatter'd Re- 
marks to fome certain Principles. A few Propo- 
rtions of this kind, together with the probable 
Confequences, that Seem naturally to flow from 
them, will not only make my Syftem of Generation 
clear, but alfo take off many Objections, and render 
thefe very Obfervations better underftood, when 
they are reduced under certain Heads. 
It Seems plain therefore, that there is a vegetative 
Force in every microfcopical Point of Matter, and 
every vifible Filament of which the whole animal or 
vegetable Texture confifts: And probably this Force ex- 
tends much farther ; for not only in all my Observa- 
tions, the whole Subflance, after a certain Separa- 
tion of Salts and volatile Parts, divided into Filaments, 
and vegetated into numberlefs Zoophytes, which 
yielded all the feveral Species of common microsco- 
pical Animals,- but thefe very Animals alfo, after a 
certain time, fubiided to the Bottom, became mo- 
tionlefs, refolv'd again into a gelatinous filamentous 
Subflance, and gave Zoophytes and Animals of a 
Idler Species. 
This is not only true of all the common microfco- 
pical Animalcules, but of the lpermatic alfo; which, 
after lofing their Motion, and Sulking to the Bottom, 
again refoived into Filaments, and again gave idler 
Animals. 
