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bability ghess) it^affords us an Instarice, whereof perhaps there are not
many like in Nature,and that is,ofthe prodigious increase of these Crea-
tures after they are hatch’d and run about dor a common Wood-louse,of
about half an inch long, is no less then a hundred and twenty five thou-
sand times bigger then one of thefe, which though indeed it seems very
strange, yet Lhave obferved the young ones of feme Spiders have almost
kept the same proportion to their Dam.
This, methinks, if it be so, does in the next place hint a Qyasry,which
may perhaps deserve a little further examination : And that is,Whether
there be not many of those minute Creatures,such as Mites, and the like,
which, though they are commonly thought of otherwife, are only the
puily, or young ones, of much bigger Infests, and not the generating,
or parent Infest, that has layd thofe Eggs 5 for having many times ob-
serv’d those Eggs, which usually are found in great abundance where
Mites are found , it feems something strange, that so small an Animal
fliould have an Egg so big in proportion to its body. Though on the
other side, I must confels, that having kept divers of thofe Mites inclosed
in a box fora good while, I did not find them very much augmented be-
yond their usual bigness.
What the husk and cobweb of this little white substance fliould be, I
cannot imagine, unless it be, that the old one, when impregnated with
Eggs, fliould there ssay, and fix it self on the Vine, and dye, and all the
body by degrees fliould rot, lave only the husk, and the Eggs in the bo-
dy : And the heat, or fire, as it were, of the approaching Sun-beams
fliould vivifie thofe Relists of the corrupted Parent, and out of the
allies, as ’twere, ( as it is fabled of the Phcenix ) Ihould raife a new' ofl-
ipring for the perpetuation of the jpecies. Nor will the cobweb, as it
were, in which thefe Eggs are inclos’d, make much against this Con je-
sture 5 for we may, by thofe cobwebs that are carried up and down the
Air after a Fog (which with my Microfeepe I have difeovered to be made
up of an infinite company of small filaments or threads) learn, that
soch a texture of body may be otherwife made then by the ipinning of
a Worm.
Oblerv. L VII. Os the Eels in Vinegar.
OF thefe small Eels, which are to be found in divers sorts of Vine-
gar, I have little to add besides their Pisture, which you may
find drawn in. the third figure of the 25. Scheme: That is, they were
shaped much like an Eel, lave only that their nofe A, ( which was a lit-
tle more opacous then the rest of their body ) was a little fliarper, and
longer, in proportion to their body, and the wrigling motion of their
bodyfeemd to be onely upwards and downwards, whereas that of
Eels is onely side wayes; They feem’d to have a more opacous part
about
bability ghess) it^affords us an Instarice, whereof perhaps there are not
many like in Nature,and that is,ofthe prodigious increase of these Crea-
tures after they are hatch’d and run about dor a common Wood-louse,of
about half an inch long, is no less then a hundred and twenty five thou-
sand times bigger then one of thefe, which though indeed it seems very
strange, yet Lhave obferved the young ones of feme Spiders have almost
kept the same proportion to their Dam.
This, methinks, if it be so, does in the next place hint a Qyasry,which
may perhaps deserve a little further examination : And that is,Whether
there be not many of those minute Creatures,such as Mites, and the like,
which, though they are commonly thought of otherwife, are only the
puily, or young ones, of much bigger Infests, and not the generating,
or parent Infest, that has layd thofe Eggs 5 for having many times ob-
serv’d those Eggs, which usually are found in great abundance where
Mites are found , it feems something strange, that so small an Animal
fliould have an Egg so big in proportion to its body. Though on the
other side, I must confels, that having kept divers of thofe Mites inclosed
in a box fora good while, I did not find them very much augmented be-
yond their usual bigness.
What the husk and cobweb of this little white substance fliould be, I
cannot imagine, unless it be, that the old one, when impregnated with
Eggs, fliould there ssay, and fix it self on the Vine, and dye, and all the
body by degrees fliould rot, lave only the husk, and the Eggs in the bo-
dy : And the heat, or fire, as it were, of the approaching Sun-beams
fliould vivifie thofe Relists of the corrupted Parent, and out of the
allies, as ’twere, ( as it is fabled of the Phcenix ) Ihould raife a new' ofl-
ipring for the perpetuation of the jpecies. Nor will the cobweb, as it
were, in which thefe Eggs are inclos’d, make much against this Con je-
sture 5 for we may, by thofe cobwebs that are carried up and down the
Air after a Fog (which with my Microfeepe I have difeovered to be made
up of an infinite company of small filaments or threads) learn, that
soch a texture of body may be otherwife made then by the ipinning of
a Worm.
Oblerv. L VII. Os the Eels in Vinegar.
OF thefe small Eels, which are to be found in divers sorts of Vine-
gar, I have little to add besides their Pisture, which you may
find drawn in. the third figure of the 25. Scheme: That is, they were
shaped much like an Eel, lave only that their nofe A, ( which was a lit-
tle more opacous then the rest of their body ) was a little fliarper, and
longer, in proportion to their body, and the wrigling motion of their
bodyfeemd to be onely upwards and downwards, whereas that of
Eels is onely side wayes; They feem’d to have a more opacous part
about