86 Animalcules in Waters . 
parent; their Tails are tapering, with a long 
Sprig at the Extremity ; and their Motion is 
flow and waddling. This Dunghill-Water 
abounds alfo with a Sort of capillary Eels 
that are extremely active. 
An Infufion of any Herb , Grain , Fruit , 
or Flower , made in common Water, will be 
found, after a few Days, to contain fome 
Kinds of Animalcules peculiar to itfelf; and 
this, tho’ aflonifhing, may be accounted for 
in a very reafonable Manner; for a little Ob- 
fervation will fhew, that every Herb , Grain , 
Fruit , or Flower , is allotted by Providence to 
be the Food of fome particular Sort of Bird, 
Beaft, or Infect, of the vifible and larger 
Kinds; and we may fuppofe it, in like Man¬ 
ner, when infufed in Water, to afford alfo a 
proper Nourifhment for fome or other of 
thofe numberlefs Species of minute Creatures, 
which are innoifihk to the naked Eye, and 
not to be difcovered without a good Micro- 
fcope. And as to this Particularity of Ani¬ 
malcules > I refer the Curious (who have not 
yet been convinced by Trials of their own) 
to the Obfervations of Monfieur Toblot 
(p. ofe'for Royal of the Mathematics , and of 
the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture 
at Paris) on the various Kinds difcovered 
by him in the feveral Infufions following : 
the Pictures of which Animalcules he has 
given, as well as a Defcription of them. He 
examined the Infufions of Pepper , black, 
white, 
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