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x. That I could not separate asingle Fibrefromhis fellows to any con-siderable distancc, all of them (to my Obsei vation) bcing very (mall, andin the separation running sinaller and (maller, and wiihal by rtasen oftheir Implication or stricttr Cohesion one with another eafily breaking; buta Congeries of them, (to be observed elyecial'y, though not precisely always,in those places where by gently extending the Intestine several times, andthen lettingit rcturn again.the Cohesion ot the several Series of them bccameloosen’d) which at first View would resemble a pretty large Fibre, wouldwithout much difficulty rise together; the very lrnall constiruting Fibrcs ofwhich Güsters yet, if the Boiling had been very long continued, whcrebythe Compages was very much rclax’d, would in theraising be very apt toseparate from one another, and appear disttnct by reafön ot their Insertionby and by to be mention’d.

2. That when beginning at the top, I attempted the Separation of oneof these (supposed Annular) Güsters of Fibres towards my Right Hand (onthat side of the Intestine, I mean, which was turn’d towards me) a wholeRing would come off together, (exctpting that (bme Fibrillae, which ri-sing from contrary Parts, decuflated one another at the Top in that Phasts,would a little retain it) but endeavouring it towards my Lest, I found, forthe most part, I could eafily enough unravel that Guster to a conside rabieLcngth, was. that of sometimes more than 2 or z Spans, before Ruption (ofthe whole Cluster I mean) which yet at last ’twould besubjectto. For,

z. Though those Convolutions, as to the greatest part of themappeareddistinct, yet 1 found, that from every one of them, at (hört Distances, fomeFibres did obliquely, and the most of them, to my best Observation, accor-dir.g to the Course of those I have mentioned, insert themselves into thenextConvolution, and bccome a part of it; though withal (bme I observed tohave a contrary Tendency, or rather scem’d toascend from the lower tothe upper Convolution, and help to constitute it, and so to obftrve the Coursementioned ; nay (bmetimes would go further than the next Convolution, andrunning under ir, apply themselves obliquely to fome higher, which yetbeing in a (maller Number than the rest that lay in the Order contrary tothem, did not very much hinder the Diffociation of the main ones : WhichFibres breaking off, and that in fome places in greater Numbers than inothers, would at last (and the sooner if the Intestine, began to grow dry,which it would quickly do) cause the whole Cluster to break off.

4. I observ’d, that as the most of these Fibres would by degrees, ac-cording to the order of the Convolutions, insert themselves into the nexr,so fome of them would (in the someorder} paß over it, and more (sofarasIhave obscrv’d) would run under it, and either adjoyn ihemselves to fomemore remote, or elude my searching by hiding themselves under them.This Insertion of these Fibres seems to be the Reafön of the Annular Pha-sis, that I mention’d even now, in the contrary way of separation : Forthe attempting it contrary to their order, must hinder in fome measure theready Diflöciation of the next Convolutions upwards; especially near the se-vered extremity, where there is leis resistance of the adjacent parts; theVol. III. N memion’c