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The Floral King. I7I
extraneous beings were to be seen in the water,
which would cause such a light. He could not, with
his naked eye, discover anything, he therefore
filtered the water through a piece of thick fine cloth,
when the cloth became luminous in the dark; but
the water was no longer luminous, although he
splashed it with his hands. From this he found
reason to believe, that what was luminous in the
water existed separately from the water itself. On
the cloth which was luminous after the filtering, he
saw that the light consisted in an infinite number of
luminous particles or dots, but as he had then no
microscope he was compelled to leave them unviewed.
Afterwards he got a microscope, then gathered sea-
weed, which mostly is luminous at night time, when
he kept that in a dark room he saw more than
thirty luminous dots on one leaf. He shook these
dots over a paper, when one dot fell down on the
paper and glowed; it was fine, and the size of half
an eyelash, and dark yellow in colour. After this he
took the microscope and saw that it was a living
grub, which consisted of eleven rings, like most Java,
and had by its sides even as many pairs of brushes
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