Globe Animal* 323 
Deficiency of Air ; the Phials being corked 
clofe, and too full of Water to leave them 
Airenough for Refpiration. One kind, how¬ 
ever, fuffered very little, but when examin¬ 
ed by the Microfcope was perfectly alive 
and vigorous, -and ip numerous in one of 
the Phials, that the Water might be perceiv¬ 
ed to fwarm w r ith them, though their Size 
was much too fmall for the naked Eye to 
diftinguifh otherwife than as moving Points. 
They all died with mein two or three Days^ 
but in that Time I had Opportunities enough 
to examine them, very carefully, and take a 
Drawing of them. ? My Friend, Mr. Arderon 
of Norwich , fent me alfo, towards the End of 
the fame Summer, fome little Account, with 
a Drawing of the fame Animalcule, of which 
he had accidentally difcovered a lingle one 
in a Drop of Water. 
Fig. 27. reprefents this very fmgular mi¬ 
nute Water Animal, as it is feen before the 
Microfcope. Its Form feems exactly globu¬ 
lar, having no Appearance of either Head* 
Tail, or Fins. It moves in all Diredions* 
forwards or backwards, up or down* either 
rolling over and over like a Bowl, fpinning 
horizontally like a Top, or gliding along 
fmoothly without turning itfelf at all. Some¬ 
times its Motions are flow, at other Times 
very fwift: and when it pleafes, it cad turrf 
round (as it were upon an Axis) very nimbiy ? 
without removing out of its Place. Its 
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