102 Animalcules in Waters .' 
Joannes Faber Lyncexjs allures us* 
that, in the Year 1624* he faw himfelf a 
Whale that was call upon the Shore near 
Santa Sever a , about thirty Miles from Rome, 
ninety-one Palms in Length, and fifty in 
Thicknefs : its Mouth was fixteen Palms 
long and ten high, and being opened and 
kept gaping, a Man on Horfeback might 
therein find Room enough. Its Tongue was 
twenty Palms, that is, about fifteen Foot in 
Length. He adds, that four Years before, 
another Whale was thrown afhore near the 
Jfland of Corjica , not far from the Coafl of 
Italy , which, being a Female, was found big 
with a Cub thirty Foot long, and fifteen 
hundred Pounds in Weight, He fays, the 
Carnca Pinguedo [Lard or Fat] only of the 
Parent Whale weighed one hundred and 
thirty-five thoufand Pounds. 
Let us now reflect how amazing the Dis¬ 
parity between fuch a Fifh as this, and a 
minute Animalcule lefs than the thoufandth 
Part of a Grain of Sand in Bignefs i how 
innumerable muff the Kinds of Creatures be 
that form the Progreflions from one Size to 
the other ! and how equally wonderful does 
the Hand of Providence appear, whether it 
actuates an enormous Mountain of Matter* 
or-enlivens an Atom ! 
