24 © Of Animalcula in Fluids . 
The twenty-third of September, three other forts of 
snore minute animalcules were found in this liquor, and 
frame of the eel-kind alfo. 
An infufion of rafberry-lfalks. 
| ' HIS infufion is one of them which does not caufe 
-*• a difagreeable fniell, neverthelefs it produces Ira 
about twenty-four hours time, the fineft p animalcules 
that are to be met with in fluids, and in as great num¬ 
bers.. Their reprefentation is at o o, Fig. 240. they are 
at hr ft very white and tranfparent but more fo In fome 
place than in others, with little marks upon them, and 
at length this whitenefs changes into a tranfparent yellow 
colour. They may be feen ftretching out and fhortening 
themfelyes from oval to round, by means of obftacles 
which they find in their way. They are often feen to 
hold each other by the beak, and in that pofture they 
move exceeding fail, without quitting their hold, as at 
P. Another fort of animalcule was found in this infu- 
ilon, of the fhape reprefented at Qh; between the middle 
of its body, and the head, was a tranfparent fubftance, 
regularly beating, but fo quick, that the fhape of it 
could not bp difcerned. 
Infufions of fennel, fage, melon, four grapes, 
ftalks, and leaves of marigolds. 
F ENNEL, with its large and fmall ftalks, was put 
into cold water to infufe, Auguft eleventh and ora 
the thirteenth following, in the fmalleft drop that cpuld 
poffibly be taken up, and placed upon the objedt carrying 
glafs. 
r joblott's Gbferv, p. 35,' 
