142 Of Animalcula in Fluids. 
as fmall as the laft; the other at Y, fig. 244. The fourth 
of September thefe little animalcula were exceedingly 
multiplied and increafed in fize, fbme of them were 
joined together in the form of a figure of 8, as at P, 
fig. 244. and moved fometimes circular and fometimes 
in a right line ; on the eighth of September were found 
upon the crufc, which fwam upon this infufion, feme 
minute worms* and alfo in a drop of the liquor a con- 
liderable quantity of other eel-like animalcula. 
On the 25th of Auguft, fome of the ftalks and leaves" 
of marigolds, were put to fteep in cold water, and eight 
days after there was three forts of animalcula found 
therein; the firft is reprefented at Z, fig. 245. the fe- 
cond at R, of the fame figure \ and the laft, for which 
there was no room in this plate, were of the eel-kind, 
different from thofe in vinegar, and different alfo from 
thefe in pafte. 
Firfl infufion of new hay in cold water. 
T HIS infufion ftood but twenty-four hours before 
it was filled with life, and at the end of five or 
fix days, in the moft minute drop of this water, five or 
fix forts of living animalcula were difcoverable 5 diffe¬ 
rent in colour, fize, figure, and motion. 
The fmell of this infufion is very ftrong in hot wea¬ 
ther, but decays as the infufion grows old 1 animalcules 
are very rarely to be met wdth in any other infufion that 
are larger, finer, more tranfparent, or that live fo long 
as thofe found in this. 
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