Eels in blighted Wheat . 2 57 
** more Reafon to think a Being endued 
with living Powers , ever lcfes them du~ 
ring its whole Exigence, than to believe 
“ that a Stone ever acquires them.”—The 
Capacity of exercifing them for the pre- 
“ fent, as well as the adtual Exercife of 
<( them, may be fufpended, (fays he, page 
u 22 .) and yet the Powers themfelves re- 
(c main undeflroyed.” 
But leaving a Subject of which we 
know fo little, to fpeak fomething farther 
of our Anguilla :-^It appears plainly from 
the foregoing Experiments, that when the 
blighted Grains of Wheat have been kept 
a long Time, and the Bodies of thefe Ani¬ 
malcules are confequently become extreme¬ 
ly dry, the Rigidity of their minute Vef- 
fels requires to be relaxed very gently, 
and by exceeding flow Degrees; for we 
find, that on the Application of Water 
immediately to the Bodies of thefe Ani¬ 
malcules when taken from the dry Grains, 
they do not fo certainly revive, as they do 
if the Grains themfelves be either buried 
in Earth or fteeped in Water for fome 
Time before they are taken out. The Rea¬ 
fon of which moil probably is, that too 
fudden a Relaxation burfls their delicate 
and tender Organs, and thereby renders 
them incapable of being any more em¬ 
ployed to perform the A£ions of Life. 
And indeed there are always feme dead 
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