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creation, when we think of more than 26,000 ani¬ 
mals living, obtaining subsistence, and moving 
perfectly at their ease, without annoyance to one 
another, in a single drop of water! 
The diameter of the largest of these animal¬ 
cules, was only the s south of an inch, and many on¬ 
ly the ins nth. The army which Buonaparte led 
into Russia in 1812, estimated at 500,000 men, 
would have extended, in a double row, or two 
men abreast, with 2 feet 3 inches space for each 
couple of men, a distance of 106i English miles; 
—the same number of these animalcules arranged 
in a similar w T ay in two rows, but touching one 
another, would only reach 5 feet 2| inches. A 
whale requires a sea, an ocean to sport in ;—about 
a hundred and fifty millions of these animal¬ 
cules, would have abundant room in a tumbler of 
water. 
About day-break of the 3d of September, the 
wind rather subsided, and encouraged us to make 
sail. But veering to the northward in the after¬ 
noon, it immediately began to blow. The bad 
weather so long predicted by the barometer, had, 
I began to hope, taken place in some other lati¬ 
tude, and passed us by; but it at length overtook 
us. The gale increased so rapidly, and attained 
Such a degree of violence, that before we could 
