316 Aquatic Animals . 
Idea. But, making a confiderable Allowance 
for the Fruitfulnefs of his or his Painter’s 
Fancy, I think it not unlikely that the Sub¬ 
ject we are treating of might have been the 
little Animal he faw : for the two black 
Spots, with the Part of the Bowels that comes 
between them, have fome Refemblance of 
a Nofe and Eyes; the two Points, which 
terminate the Shell at the Tail-End, appear 
fomething like a piqued Beard; the Dif- 
tance between may pafs for a Mouth, and 
the Whole put together, might by a true 
Lover of the Wonderful , be worked up to 
the extravagant Likenefs of a Satyr s Face.— 
But this is mentioned only by the by, and 
as a Reafon why I give it the Name of 
Satyr. 
CHAP. XII. 
Three aquatic Animals deferibed . 
T OWARDS the End of September , in 
the Year 1743, fome Water taken 
from a Ditch at Tooting in Surry , (wherein 
many Polypes of an exceeding fmall Kind 
had been difeovered, by my worthy, inqui- 
fitive, and obliging Friend the Rev. Dr. Hen¬ 
ry Miles , F. R. S.) was fent to me in a Phial, 
in order to be examined. And whilfl I was 
Viewing the Polypes with the Microfcope, I 
had 
