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The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
They are alfo roafted a little at the Fire by Negroes, and eat with 
Bread as delicious Food, without any other Cookery, . 
The Coff defcribed by Muffet, lib. 2. p. 250. called in Englifh Timber- 
Worms, and the fourth Kind of the Teredo by Aldrovand de Infectis, lib. 6. 
fens feem to be pretty near this if not the fame, only this is much 
Phete Cofi are a Prey to Wood-Peckers, who live moftly on them, 
this Bird is contrived by its Toes, which are two fet, as well back- 
ward as forwards, two forked {trong Feathers in its Tail on which 
it leans when it fticks to or runs up the Truncs of Trees, anda {trong Bill 
with a fharp, bony, long bearded tooth’d Tongue to bore the Trees and 
bring out the Coff, tho’ deeply lodg’d in them. | co y 
Fig. 6,7. Tab. 233. fhews its upper and under Sides, and Fig. 8. as it lies 
in the rotten Wood. 
VIII. Hexapus Infettum media magnitudinis album, Capite fufco, Tab. 232. 
Fig. 9. 
This was about two Inches long, as big as one’s little Finger, of a 
white Colour made up of feveral Asnalz; the Head was of a dark 
brown Colour. The three firft Rings had on each of their under 
Sides a Leg. | 
Where I found it Ido not remember. 
IX. Hexapus Infectum minus e fufco cinereum, Capite fufco, fplendente. Tab. 
233. Fig. 10. 7 
This. is the fame almoft in every refpeét with the former, only 
leffer, and of a dark white, grey Colour, The Head was brown and 
fhining. 
I found it in famaica. 
X. Teredo vel {colopendra maxima, maritima,cinerea, annulis pilorum penicilis 
ubique fuperna parte obfitis. Tab. 234. Fig. 1,2. Tururugoire. Abbeville. pe 258. 
This was about five Inches and an half long, it was of a grey Colour 
and was largeft a little beyond the Head, where ic was about the 
Bignefs of the middle Finger, whence it decreas’d in Bignefs to the 
Mouth, which was blunter, and the Tail which was finaller. The whole 
Body confifted of about forty Rings between each of which was a 
fhallow Furrow. Thefe Avmuli or Rings were {mooth on the Belly or 
under Side, and had on each four Holes, out of two of the uppermoflt of . 
which iffued Tufts of brown Hair like Pencils, furrounded with Papille, 
Tab.234. Fig. 1. fhews the Worm, and Fig. 2. a Piece of Timber per- 
forated by it. 
Thefe Worms eat thro’ the Sheathing, Planks, and even Keels of 
Ships in the Seas about Fameica, almoft all over the hor Weft and Eaft- 
Indies, the Mediterranean, &c. and not only thro’ the fofter and lighter 
Woods, but even, I have feen Keels of Ships made of Oak, and the 
Cedar-Tree, which is reckon’d to refift all manner of Worms by its Smell 
and Refia, pertorated by them. There is left by them in the Cavities 
they make, a white teftaceous Body like Egg-fhel. 
At Toulox, where thefe Worms in that Harbour hurt Ships, the 
late Fresch King endeavoured to kill them by turning the Liquor 
from Tan-pits into the Places where his Ships lay, but without Effect. 
This 
