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could makcbut small advance which is perhaps requisite, that it may recoverit silf, when the Dtscenr of the Faces do drive it downwards. And for the ad-vantage too of its Motion ; at tvery Joynt there is a Prominence of the for-mer over the lacter ; which like so many Scales on the Kelly of other Rep-tiles, do perform the Ufe of Ftet.

But I hnd (orne Authors, who admit this Worm to be Alivt, yet Asiertthat Yis not One, but many H'orms link’d together and included in a Spoli-um of the Inteßmes , and that thus Spclium it feit is not Animated, but re-ceives all its Sense and Mcion from the Cucurbitini included in it. ThisCom- Gabucinus very plainly, as he telis us, dilcovtr’d in a part of this Worm,F ’ m ' shew’d him by a Person that Voided it. Hac Portio (says he) [esc commove-bit, quo faBum est, ut avi Mus Motus ip(ius causam vestigarem ; diligentissimetandem pe> qttirens per ejus totam Cavitatem, Cucumeris strniiinm AnimaliumSeriem sise moventium ipsi Motum prastare conspexi: J£ua ex ea, veluti cxquodam LeBulo, prodibant , interdum tinum, duo simul interdum complicata,plerumque quatuor plurave : atque eam abrasionis portionem, qua vacua ab hu-jusmodi Cucurbitinis segmentis Animatis erat, nullo pallo moveri, imo subfi-dere. But I very rnuch suspect this particular, because in that I met with ina Dog in the Colledge Theatre whilst Alive, and in my Hand, a Joynt or twofeli off, but I could no ways obferve any Membrane hanging to the fore-going Joynt , out of which it might flip, but it broke off entire. And al-tho’ there were two single Joynts, which I found in the Intestine, upon thefrlf opening it, yet there was nothing 1 could sce affixt to the lalf whichmight include them. And indeed the sctting«on of the Joynt s here is such,that it feetns to me sufficient to fhew, That this Worm carnat be a conti-nued Membrana Articulated only by the several Cucurbitini included in ir,iincc there is fo large a Protuberance of the Lower ExTeam of the forc-goingover theUpptrp rt of the following; which I plainly per-ceiv’d in this Worm. IV only a Membrane, why constantly, and thus re*gularly, a difference of both Extremes , as to their Leng'h and Breadth ?How happen the Hctks at the Head? How are thole Orificu torm’d at theEdges , or on the FlsU of the Worm ? And if it was to as Gabucinus imagin d,1 cannot think but I muli have perctiv’d lometbingof it, in those several

f iieces of this Worm which I have observ’d ; and especially in that 8 Yardsong, where I open’d several Joynts , and could sind no such thing. ThatMucous Matter therefore which is oblerv’d to be Voided by thole troubledwith them, which he telis us the Women there take for the Beds of thisWorm , may be better.accounted for ; it beinglikely in a great Mealiire tobe but the 'Mucuidf the Intestines themselves, cr a Slimy Spolium casi offfrom these Worms. ThusLeeches J have observ’d, being put into VVater,do casi out a Slime, which covers their Bodies, which afterwards they flipoff, and is found in the Bottom of the Olafs in the Form of a Mucous Coat.So fiarth" Worin? do void a large Quantity of a Mucous Liquor, at fcveralparts of their Body ; (b Snails, &c. Upon the whole, 1 fee nothing why wemay notjusily aseribe that Life, we find here, to the Lumbricus Latus it sclf,and not to any Animals we may fancy it pregnant with.

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