Of the Oht- Animal, 241 
the like Kind, will, upon Examination, be 
found to produce them alfo, and even in 
great Abundance. 
CHAP. IL 
Of the Oat-Animal* 
I N the fame Ditch-water from Norwich 
came like wife great Numbers of the 
little Creatures, whofe feveral.Appearances* 
when examined by the Microfcope, are 
fhewn Plate X. N° vii. 
My curious Friend pointed it out to my 
Obfervation by the Name of the Oat-Ani¬ 
mal-, and as, at firft View, it much refem^ 
bles a Grain of that Sort, I fhall here de« 
fcribe it under the fame Name. 
This Creature is fo very fmalj, that no 
true Judgment can be made of it, unlefs 
it be looked at through the greatefl Mag¬ 
nifier, nor even then without confiderable 
Attention. I commonly found two or three 
of them in a Drop of the Sediment, amongfl 
Multitudes of the Hair-like InfeB, lying 
at the Bottom of the Water wherewith the 
fame Sediment was diluted, upon the Plate 
of Glafs, without any vifible Motion or 
Appearance of Life : being inclofed in a 
Bivalve-fhell, which the Animal can open 
or fhut as it is inclined - s but which it 
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