yS Hay-Water 3 Sic. 
Agitation. Their Motion is chiefly a re¬ 
volving one, turning round perhaps above 
an hundred Times in a Minute, firft one 
Way, and then the contrary ; and all this 
without moving a Hair’s Breadth out of 
their PI ace. But fometimes they move for-' 
ward very brifkly, turn, return, and fetch a 
large Compafs with feveral Deviations : 
keeping, however, throughout their whole 
Prcgreffion, their pointed End always fore- 
me-ft. See Fig. VIII. 
I once difcovered in the Scum on the Sur¬ 
face of Hay-Water a Kind of minute Ser¬ 
pents * 3 for fo I call them from their Motion, 
which was like that of a Serpent, and from 
their coiling up tbemfelyes in the Manner 
Serpents do. I kept this Water fome Weeks, 
and fhewed them to feveral of my Friends $ 
but fince that Time have never met with 
them in any Infufion of the fame Sort, or in 
any other Fluid, Their Manner of moving 
forward, and alfo of coiling themfelves up, 
|s (hewn Fig. IX. T, 2. They were larger 
than any of the Eel-kinds of Animalcules , 
their Motion very different, and not near fo 
quick. The End that teemed to be the 
plead was thicker and fomewbat more opake 
fh-an the other. 
Animalcules in the Shape of Eels are fre¬ 
quently met with in many of the Infutions 
1 am now mentioning, and likewife in fe¬ 
veral other Liquors. The Bignefs of then> 
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