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called a Polype *, found adhering to the Lens 
Paliijiris; which being cut through the 
Middle, from the upper Half a Tail pro¬ 
ceeds, and from the lower Half a Head : fo 
that one Animal becomes two. If it be di¬ 
vided into three, the middle Part fhoots forth 
a Head and Tail, the upper Part a Tail, and 
the lower Part a Head $ and all three be¬ 
come as perfect Animals as the firfl. Whence 
he concludes, that in the boundlefs Variety 
of the Works of Providence, every Thing 
that can be, is. 
Another Letter to the fame Gentleman, 
dated at the Hague , Sept. 15, 1741, from the 
Honourable William Bentimck, Efq. 
fays # That a young Man of Geneva looking 
for fmall Infedls in Water, faw fome little 
Things which he took for Plants; but ex¬ 
amining them carefully, he perceived fome 
Motions in them, and found them contract 
when touched. It was a long while, how¬ 
ever, before he could determine whether they 
were Plants or Animals ; for he faw feveral 
young Shoots coming out upon them, and 
that as far as four Generations, hanging to 
©ne another. But he has iince found them 
* The Name Polypus, or Many Feet , is given to feveral 
Fillies of the Star-Fijb or Cuttle-Fijh Kind, fome whereof, 
befides feveral Claws, have two long Trunks, which they 
can extend to a great Diitance to feize their Prey : and this- 
Animalcule, I fuppofe, is called Folype i Korn its having fome- 
what of a like Form, 
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