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led over the whole Drop a great Number 
of Times. All 1 found remarkable there-, 
in, but which I regarded very little, was 
a pretty large Animalcule, that I remem¬ 
bered to have feen before what I was 
now feeking for had prefented itfelf to View, 
and whofe Appearance was as at fig. 3. 
In a Word, after much Pains to no Man¬ 
ner of Purpofe, concluding my new Ac¬ 
quaintance irrecoverably loft, though I could 
not conceive how, I put the Microfcope 
afide, very much difappointed and diffa- 
tisfied. 
A Fortnight or three Weeks after, exa¬ 
mining fome more of the fame dimy Mat¬ 
ter, I was again furprized and pleafed with 
another of thefe Animals, that ftarted up 
under my Eye, and fwam about as the for¬ 
mer had done : but the Water it was in be¬ 
ginning to dry away, and being employed a 
few Moments in adding a frefti Supply, I 
loft it as ftrangely as I had done before, and 
looked for it again to as little Purpofe, till my 
Patience was wearied out. 
Frequently, after this, I examined the 
fame Matter, in Flopes of finding fome of 
thefe little Creatures, but all my Endeavours 
proved fruitlefs and therefore, as I could 
give no better Account of them, I determin¬ 
ed not to mention them at all. But one 
Night, fhewing fome other Animalcules in 
the before-mentioned Slime, to my ingeni- 
