126 Of viewing the Curren t 
this Water-Kind, which fometimes may be 
found lefs than an Inch long, and fo tranfpa- 
rent, that the Blood may be feen running in 
all Dire&ions, not only through the Veffels 
of the Tail, but throughout the whole Body: 
And it is particularly delightful, to behold, in 
the little Toes, the Stream thereof running 
to the Extremity in one Channel, and return¬ 
ing back again by another. Juft below the 
Head are on either Side three Fins, or fome- 
what like Fins, which, in fwimming, the 
Creature makes ufe of to poife and guide its 
Body : each of thefe appears by the Micro- 
fcope divided, like Polypody, into many point¬ 
ed Branches : in any one whereof, as in the 
Toes, the Blood is feen coming along an Ar¬ 
tery to the Extremity, and then immedi¬ 
ately returning towards the Heart again 
* through a Vein that lies parallel, and almoft 
clofe thereto, and with which its Commu¬ 
nication is very apparent.—As thirty or forty 
of thefe Branchings prefent themfelves be¬ 
fore 'the Eye fometimes at once, with the 
Blood diftindtly circulating in all, they afford 
a charming Sight: and they may be viewed 
by the third or fourth Magnifier for the 
Globules of the Blood in Newts are larger 
than in any other Creature I have examined, 
and are fewer in Proportion to the Serum or 
Water they float along in. To which I may 
alfo add, that the Figure of them, as they are 
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