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thus extended, by giving them a vibrating 
Motion, the Creature can produce a Current 
in the Water, which brings the Animalcules* 
or whatever other minute Bodies are not be¬ 
yond the Sphere of its Action, with great 
Velocity to its Mouth, whofe Situation is 
between the Arms : where they are taken 
in, if liked, or elfe, by a contrary Current, 
which the Creature can excite, they are car¬ 
ried away again : w r hilf: at the fame Time 
other minute Animalcules or Subfiances, 
that by lying without fide the Inclofure 
made by the Arms are lefs fubjedt to the 
Force of the Stream, are frequently feized 
by them : for their Senfe of Feeling is fo 
exquifite, that on being touched ever fo 
flightly by any fuch little Body, it is caught 
immediately and conveyed to the Mouth. 
However, one may obferve the Creature is 
fometimes difappointed in its Acquiiition ; 
for after drawing down one of the Arms 
luddenly inwards towards the Mouth, it may 
be perceived flowly extending itfelf again, 
without the Creature’s retiring into its 
Cafe y which it fails not to do on meeting 
with any thing worth its while. 
The Food is conveyed immediately from 
the Mouth or Opening between the Arms, 
through a very narrow Neck, into a PafTage 
fcemingly correfpondent to the Oefophagus 
in Land Animals ; down which it palTes into 
the Stomach, where it remains for fome 
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