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III. TESTACEA. Are Aftf/ZM/cd- covered with calcareous ha- 
bitations or which they carry about 
with them ; themfelves jyrc;ducing and often 
penetrating calcareous bodies, l.ike infeas, 
they arc multiplied into a vaft number of 
fpecies and varieties ; and both in form and 
Colours, exhibit fplendid examples of the 
power of the Almighty Artificer. 
IV, ZOOPHYTA. Are compofite anima's, holding a medium 
between animals and vegetables. IVloil of 
them take root and grow up into Hems- 
multiplying life in their branches and de- 
ciduous buds, and in the transformation of 
^heir animated blolToms or polypes whith 
are endowed with fpontaueous motion. 
Plants therefore refemble Zoophytes, hut ! 
are deftttute of animation and the power of > 
locomotion: and Zoophytes area it v. ere * 
plants, but furnifhed with fciifaiion and 
the organs of fpontaneous motion. Oi thefe 
naked, and are called 
Zsofhpes\ others are covered with a hard 
ihell, and are denominated Liihopkytes. 
V. INFUSORIA. Are extremely minute animalcules, defii- 
tiite of untacula or fteiers, and generallv 
not vifible to the naked eye. They are 
nioflly fefund in infufions of various vegeta- 
ble fubftanccs; and after becoming dry, do 
r.ot revive upon being replaced in moifture. 
CHARACTERS, 
