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Sun, or a Candle, or brought out of the Dark 
into the Day-light, though contracted before 
and retired into the Bell, (as indeed they ge¬ 
nerally are when in the Dark) they con- 
flan tly extend their Arms for Prey, and fhew 
evident Signs of being ple’afed. 
Befides the particular and feparate Motion 
each of thefe Creatures is able to exert with¬ 
in its own Cafe and independent of the red, 
the whole Colony has together a Power of 
altering the Polition, or even of removing 
from one Place to another the Bell or com¬ 
mon Habitation of them all. Hence this 
Bell is feen fometimes Handing perfectly up- 
right (as Jig. 15 and 17.) fometimes bending 
the upper Part downwards (as fig. 16.) 
It has been mentioned already, that be¬ 
tween ten and fifteen of thefe Animals dwell 
together, as it were a little Community, in 
one Bell-like Cafe or common Habitation : 
but their Number increafing, this Bell may 
be obferved to fplit gradually, beginning 
from about the Middle of the upper or an¬ 
terior Extremity, and proceeding downward 
towards the Bottom, till they feparate at 
laft intirely, and form two compleat Colo¬ 
nies, independent of each other; one of 
which fometimes removes itfelf to another 
Part of the Veffel. The Manner how th@ 
fmgle Animals propagate, I have never been 
able perfectly to difcover, though there is 
fome Reafon to conjecture it may be by the 
X 4 Means 
