Of Fires, 71 
arches D G, &c. are not natural, but adventitious to the 
fame grain, proceeding only from the drying or fhrinking 
up of the great number of eggs that lie within the ani- 
malcula; for if the fame grain was well foaked in 
water, the concave parts would become convex. Fig. 118«, 
fhews an egg with its membrane, as it was taken out of 
,a grain of cochineal fteeped in rain water for abou£ 
twenty-four hours 4 in which might be feen the young 
one, and its fhell iurraunding it. L M N, fig. 119. re- 
prefents one of thefe unborn animalcula. Fig. 120. fhews 
the body of another animakul-um which was taken out'of 
the egg-lhell, in which not only the body was xliftindlly 
feen, but alfo the parts thereof divided into feveral circles, 
and likewife the two horns with the joints wherewith 
nature hath provided all thofe unborn animalcula, were 
plainly vifible when placed before the microicope. B H, 
£) I, and D K, ihew its four legs, the other two being 
.hid from the fight. F G reprefent the horns, at the ex* 
iremity of each of which aje three final! hairs.. 
