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fubftances are too minute for any polypes to harbour 
in. Thefe words of the Doctor’s feem'to imply, as 
if the Coralline fubftances were only habitations for 
detached polypes, and not part of the animals them- 
felves. How this affair ftands, I hope to have cleariv 
demonftrated long before this, for I have plainly 
feen, and endeavoured to fliew mankind, that the 
fofter and harder parts of zoophytes are fo clofely 
connected with one another, that they cannot fepa- 
rateiy exift j and therefore have not hefitated to call 
them conftituent parts of the fame body, and that 
the polype-like fuckers are fo many mouths be- 
longing thereto. , . 
Now, for the fmallnefs of the pores, which the 
Dodtor has mentioned here (among the Corallines) 
to be a contradi&ion to animal life he certainly 
has forgot one circumftance, when he introduces the 
Corallium pumilum album (Effay Cor. T. 27./. c.) 
or his Millepora calcarea (Pall. Elench. P * 26 50 as 
an animal, which is, that he there fays, it has abfo- 
lutely no pores at allf. , 
As there can be no doubt, but every part of 
what is called Coralline is neceffary to make out 
fuch an animal, or being, it will be very difficult, 
if not almoft impoffible, to determine the propor- 
tion there ought to be between fofter and harder 
parts ; and therefore it cannot be thought un- 
reafonable to fay, that in fome of this tribe the 
ftony parts are by much the greater part of the 
whole, Specially as Dodtor Pallas’s objeaion can be 
only a gain ft the cruft, or lapidefcent part, as the m- 
fide of many of them is far from being hard, being 
f Pori omnino nulli. Pall. Elench. p. 266. 
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