232 INTRODUCTION. 
ly to infpedt the Waters; in doing which, I 
have been kindly affifted by fome ingenious 
Friends ; and the following Plates and Sheets 
exhibit the Figures and Defcrlptions of fuch 
of the minute Inhabitants thereof as have 
fallen in my Way, and feemed to me the 
mod: curious and extraordinary. And as 
Names are of the utmofh Service to make 
People underhand one another, I hope to be 
indulged the Liberty of giving fuch to thefe 
hitherto unnoticed Animalcules, as corre- 
fpond in fome Manner to their Appearances 3 
even though 1 may not always have chofen 
■ the moft proper. 
EMPLOY- 
