24 ° Of the Hair’■like Infe Si. 
one Column to the Bottom. N° VI. Is a Re- 
prefentatioil of this amufing Accident, which 
ferves to fhew, that however mean or con- 
temptible thefe Creatures may appear to us, 
the Power that created them has not left 
them deftitute of Sagacity, to affociate toge¬ 
ther, and ad unanimoufly for the Benefit of 
the Community ; both thefe Armies march¬ 
ing as regularly as if under the Direction of 
wife Leaders, 
When thefe Animalcules are taken from 
the Ditch, and any other Water poured up¬ 
on them, it is difficult to make them live 
twenty-four Hours ; but when kept in fome 
of the fame Ditch-Water, they maybe pre¬ 
ferred in good Condition for feveral Months. 
Though they never are fo vigorous, nor fhew 
their Way of moving from Place to Place fo 
plainly, as when newly taken up.—Their 
Kind of Motion, as before defcribed, makes 
it evident, that if they move along the Side 
of a cylindrical Glafs Jar, either upwards or 
downwards, itrnuft be in a’Spiral Line5 and 
fucli it is always found to be. 
It is not yet difcovered whether their Food 
be Infeds exceffively minute, or Particles of 
Matter floating in the Water; neither do we 
know any thing concerning the Manner of 
their being propagated. They have as yet 
been taken Notice of only in this Ditch, but 
his reafonable to believe thd other Places of 
the 
