Of Animalcule in Fluids . 
14.6 
Of an infufion of fweet bafil, which fmelis like 
citron. 
T HREE Forts of animalcules {hew themfelves in a 
few days after fweet bafil hath been infufed in com¬ 
mon water$ the firft are feen at A, fig. 248. the fecond 
at B, and thofe of the third fort almoft like that re- 
prefented at C This Iaft fwims in a fpiral line, folding 
and unfolding its body every way. 
A, B, C, fig. 249. reprefents the animalcules found 
in the infufion of new hay, the colour of one, and figure 
of the other, was the occafion of calling one golden, 
and the other filver bag-pipe. That fort reprefented 
at D E, are called clubs ; the head whereof is feen at 
D. Thefe animalcules extend and contract, twill and 
untwift themfelves feveral ways. 
Infuhon of blue-bottles. 
F IG 250. reprefents a new fort of animalcula found 
in this infufion of blue-bottles. A fhews the head, 
B its tail, C D its breadth, which feems divided through¬ 
out its whole length by a curved line, drawn from B 
towards A; that part of the body marked C, feem’d to 
be filled with feveral little globules, lefs tranfparent on 
this fide, than on that marked D; the neck of this 
animal, which is very long, {hortens itfelf from time 
to time, as does alfo the hinder part, marked B a . It 
fwims extraordinary flow, and does not live upon the 
objell-carrying glafs above five or fix minutes, but two 
of thefe were difcovered in five or fix drops, and the fe¬ 
cond, 
» Joblott’s Obf, p. 51. 
