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fnails ; thefe extremities were of a beautiful yellow 
colour, and were five or fix lines in diameter. 
He therein faw an animal, refembling the cuttle- 
fifti, polype, or fea-nettle. The body of this fifti 
fill'd the centre j its head was placed in the middle 
thereof, and was furrounded by feveral feet or claws : 
thefe feet fill’d the intervals of the partitions obferv’d 
in the madrepora, and were at pleafure brought to 
its head, and were furni fil’d with yellow papilla* 
Its head or centre was lifted up occafionally above 
the furface, and often contracted and dilated itfelf 
like the pupil of the eye. He had the pleafure of 
feeing it move diftinCtly all its claws, as well as its 
head or centre. 
We can eafily conceive all thefe motions, from 
what we all of us have lately feen in the fre£h- 
water polype, difcover’d by our worthy member Mr. 
Trembley : and it is to be obferv’d, that the great 
lea polype (which is eaten in Lent in the Mediter- 
ranean, and which is found upon our own coafts., 
and ufually call’d a prule) the animal of the madre- 
pora, that of coral, and the frefii -water polype, 
Scarce differ but in magnitude ; fo that from having 
feen one, an idea of the reft may eafily be formed. And 
I mention this with the more freedom, as I myfelf, 
upon a vifit with Mr. Trembley in Suftex at the late 
excellent Duke of Richmond’s, whofe lofs we yet la- 
ment, faw the fame order and oeconomyobfervedin the 
coralline *, as is mention’d by M. de Peyflonnel of 
* In that fpecies of it intituled by Mr. Ray, Cora Hina minus ra~ 
wofa alterna vice denticulata , Vide Raii Synopf. Edit. 3. p. 35. 
