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by mere contadl only. Some of the rings were 
broke into femi-circles, others into greater or lefs 
portions, and others again divided into their confti- 
tuent articulations, which in fome places floated 
about fingle, and in others formed by their mutual 
attradion a lateral union, like the pipes of an organ. 
I muft obferve alfo, that thefe feparated parts feemed 
to be hollow and tranfparent, and, like inflated bladders, 
would eafily yield, and change their figure, ftretching 
or contrading themfelves from round to oval and 
cylindrical, and 'vice verja^ as any lateral preflTure in 
crouding along with the ferum brought a conftraint 
upon them. As they floated at different levels, I 
obferved many of them pafs over or under each 
other without interruption, and the fame would hap- 
pen alfo to the whole rings and larger portions. I 
remained, therefore, after repeated examinations of 
the globules in this ffate, without the lead doubt 
either of their perforation or articulation; for al- 
though the articulation was not diflinguifliable in 
every globule, I think it was fo in the greater part 
of them ; and it is natural to imagine that the reft 
were articulated likewife, though they might not. 
pafs at the proper diftance for its being diftinguifhed. 
I omitted to fpeak of the fize of the globules in this 
obfervation, nor indeed can I, from fo various an ap- 
pearance, form any judgment thereof, farther than to. 
lay that they appeared in general much augmented 
beyond their appearance on the 2d of July. 
Auguft 27^^, a third obfervation was made with 
the fame inftrument of fome blood dropped upon a 
fingle talk, and view’d as it lay without any cover, 
fo that there could be no comprefiion. I view’d it, 
whilil 
