And indeed, without such a kind of texture as this, which is very like that of _Spunk_ it would seem very strange, how any body so strong as the skin of an Animal usually is, and so close as it seems, whil’st the Animal is living, should be able to suffer so great an extension any ways, without at all hurting or dilacerating any part of it. But, since we are inform’d by the _Microscope_, that it consists of a great many small filaments, which are implicated, or intangled one within another, almost no otherwise then the hairs in a lock of Wool, or the flakes in a heap of Tow, though not altogether so loose, but the filaments are here and there twisted, as ’twere, or interwoven, and here and there they join and unite with one another, so as indeed the whole skin seems to be but one piece, we need not much wonder: And though these _fibres_ appear not through a _Microscope_ exactly jointed and contex’d, as in Sponge; yet, as I formerly hinted, I am apt to think, that could we find some way of discovering the texture of it, whil’st it invests the living Animal, or had some very easie way of separating the pulp or intercurrent juices, such as in all probability fill those _Interstitia_, without dilacerating, brusing, or otherwise spoiling the texture of it (as it seems to be very much by the ways of tanning and dressing now us’d) we might discover a much more curious texture then I have hitherto been able to find; perhaps somewhat like that of Sponges. That of _Chamoise_ Leather is indeed very much like that of _Spunk_, save onely that the _filaments_ seem nothing neer so even and round, nor altogether so small, nor has it so curious joints as _Spunk_ has, some of which I have lately discover’d like those of a Sponge, and perhaps all these three bodies may be of the same kind of substance, though two of them indeed are commonly accounted Vegetable (which, whether they be so or no, I shall not now dispute) But this seems common to all three, that they undergo a tanning or dressing, whereby the interspers’d juices are wasted and wash’d away before the texture of them can be discover’d. What their way is of dressing, or curing Sponges, I confess, I cannot learn; but the way of dressing _Spunk_, is, by boiling it a good while in a strong _Lixivium_, and then beating it very well; and the manner of dressing Leather is sufficiently known. It were indeed extremely desirable, if such a way could be found whereby the _Parenchyma_ or flesh of the Muscles, and several other parts of the body, might be wash’d, or wafted clean away, without vitiating the form of the _fibrous_ parts or vessells of it, for hereby the texture of those parts, by the help of a good _Microscope_, might be most accurately found.