173 E X P L A N A T I O N OF THE TABLES.
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'^J^HIS table iliews the appearance of a mite, viewed in
the fun-ihine with a double microfcope, which magnifies
the diameter 146 times.
The whole body and limbs feem to be compofed of convoluted fibres.
T A B L E X L I I L
' J^'HIS table reprefents the appearance of fome of the parts
of vegetables viewed with the microfcope.
FIG. I. Reprefents, of its real fize, a tranfverfe feclion of a branch of
lilac.
FIG. II. Reprefents the fame branch, viewed through a magnifying glafs
which increafcs its diameter about fix times.
FIG. III. Shews the appearance of the fame branch viewed in fun-ihine,
with a double microfcope, which increafes the diameter 146 times.
A The pith lodged in cells.
B Air veiTels in the wood.
C The baik.
A l l thefe paits appear to have ferpentine fibres in their compofition
when viewed in fun-ihine.
FIG. IV. Shews the appearance of fir dried; and Fig. V. and VI. iliew
the appearancc of thin flices from the recent leaves of myrtle and geranium,
feen through a microfcope, wjiich increafes the diameter 146 times.
Numerous ferpentine fibres feem to enter into the texture of the wood
and of the leaves.
T A B L E
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