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jelly-like animals, rather than the work of more fure 
vegetation, which carries on the growth of the tailed 
and largeft trees with the fame natural eafe and in- 
fluence, as the minutefl: plant, in a manner, which I 
have elfe where explain’d. 
Is it not alfo fomewhat particular, that, if corals 
are the work of thefe infeds, there fhould be no ca- 
vity left behind them, as they raife it into branches ; 
but that they fhould leave it folid within? And would 
it not be very furpriling, that fuch cellular paflages, 
as we fee diverfified into many kinds, fhould be 
made by thefe creatures from the bafis, to be left 
behind them, as they carry up the building, with- 
out any further purpofe, in brain-ftones, &c ? If 
this was the cafe, and that thefe little creatures could 
be fuppofed to build them, there would be a deviation 
from the general uniformity and purpofe, that is ob- 
ferv’d every-where elfe: For certainly cells are built 
by every animal to depofit fomething, eggs, young, 
or other matter, in them ; neither of which can be 
faid of the infeds in queftion. 
It has been faid, that flies, wafps, and bees, build 
themfelves cells ; in order to make a cdmparifon 
between them and thefe polypi. They do fo ; but 
is there no diftindlion to be made ? I can find fe- 
veral. Bees, wafps, &c. are in themfelves, compad 
ftrong animals, well made for the work allotted 
them, very able to bring and put together the mate- 
rials of their nefls ; and when they have done their 
work, that proportion between the fabric, and the 
creatures which raifed it, is apparent, which all nature 
points out, and th# purpofe is fulfilled foon, in their 
filling them with what nature had deftin’d they 
fhould 
