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144 The Floral King.
,amongst others, to our erudite physicus, professor
_Klingenstyerna, who viewed it with pleasure. Every
morning when it is calm, something resembling
"black powder lies on it, strewn evenly along all the
edges, this black powder moves itself gradually
from the edge closer to the centrum, as if it were an
army under command, so orderly it proceeds, until
after’ a few hours it stops 4nd is gathered together
in centro. On the water where this powder has
passed, seems a grey, almost invisible, film to
flicker, I cannot say by what produced. If anyone
takes up some of this powder with a spoon it will be
‘seen how it jumps, it is all alive and consists of
many millions of little insects, which Herr De Geer
has so incomparably described and drawn under the
name of podura aquatica. At the same time some-
thing resembling clots of blood is seen down in the
water itself, in the same manner as when anyone
allows a vein of his foot to be cut, and afterwards
puts it in a vessel with water; these blood-clots
make the water quite red, or the colour of life in the
places where they are; they are sometimes thicker
and denser, dissolve and quite disappear, when others
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