Of Aninialcula in 'Fluids. 14 * 
glafs, might be feen a fwarm of an almcft innumerably 
quantity of little animals, reprefented at fig. 241. am on gib 
which were others of a round figure, and about five ©r 
fix times longer. 
The twenty-fecond of Auguft, fome fage leaves were 
infufed in cold water, and retained their natural fmell 
all the time of the infufion* which was about twelve 
days ; nothing was feen in this liquor but fome little ani¬ 
malcules q that appeared no bigger -when magnified, than 
a grain of millet does to the naked eye 5 and an infinite 
number much fmaller, that when magnified, appeared no 
bigger than the fmalleft dot that can be made upon paper, 
with the fineft pen, and a little below the furface of the 
liquor, w r as found three very fmall but white worms. 
The twenty-eighth of September, in a drop of this in- 
fufion, was found two forts of minute animalcules, re¬ 
prefented at fig. 242. 
The twenty-fecond of Auguft, fome barberries were” 
put into cold water, which produced animalcula of the 
fhape of T, fig. 243. in twenty-four hours time. 
The twenty-fifth of the fame month, a bit of the rind 
of a melon, with a little of the pulp, and a few of its 
feeds were put into cold water 5 the next morning ap¬ 
peared fome fine tranfparent animalcules, whofe form is 
fliewn at V, fig. 243. Many little white Iongifh bodies 
were alfo found therein, whofe figures are feen at X; 
and other left bodies marked T, without any fenfibie 
motion. 
Some four grapes were alfo infufed in cold water, on 
the fourteenth of Auguft, and on the twentieth, a great 
number of animalcules appeared therein, but fo exceed¬ 
ingly minute, that their fhape could not be diftinguiftied j 
on the twenty-fifth two forts prefented themfelves, one 
as 
^ Joblott’s Obf. p. 37. 
