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two. hornsthat. grow before it, inthe place where one would have 
thought the eyes fhould be 5 each of thefeCC hath four joynts, which 
ae ined, as ‘twere, with {mall brifles, from which to thetip of its 
{nout D, the head feems very round and tapering, ending in.a very 
fharp nofe, D, which feems to havea fmall hole, and to be the paflage 
through which he fucks the blood. _ Now. whereas if it be placid on its 
back, with its belly upwards, as itis in the 35. Scheme, it {eems in feye- 
ral Pofitions to have a refemblance of chaps, or Nt as is reprefented 
in the Figure by EE, yet in other poftures thofe : 
and having kept feveral of them in a box for two or three dayes, {fo that 
for all that time they had nothing tofeed on, I found ,,.upon'letting. one 
creep on my hand, that it immediately fell to fucking, and did neither 
feem to thruft its nofe very deep into the fkin, nor to open any kind of 
mouth, but I could plainly perceive a {mall current of blood,’ which | 
came direétly from its fnout, and paft intoits belly 5 and about A there 
feem’d a contrivance, fomewhat refembling a Pump, pair of Bellows, or 
Heart, for by a very fwift /jffole and diaftek'the blood feemd drawn 
from the nofe, and forced into the body. — It did not feem at all,though 
L.viewed. it a good while as it was fucking, tothruft more of its nofein- 
to. the {kinithen the very. {nout D, nor did it caufe the leaft difcernable 
paints and yet the blood feem'd to.run. through its head very quick and 
freely, fo that it feems there is no partof,the fkin but the blood: is di- 
{pers d into, nay, even into the cuticulas, for had it thruft its whole nofe 
infrom D to, CC, it would not have amounted to the fuppofedthick- 
nefs of that teguvent,the length of the nofe being not:more then a three 
hundredth partof aninch. It hasfix legs, covered witha very-tran{pa- 
rent fhell, and joynted exaétly like.aCrab’s, or Lobfter'ss cach legis 
divided. into.fix parts by thefe joynts, and thofe.have here and there 
feveral {mall hairs; and, at the end of each leg it has two. claws, ve 
‘properly adapted. for, its pecolianaiss being thereby inabled to; ok 
very fecurely both. on the {kin and hair 5 and indeed this,contrivance of 
the feet.is very curious, and could'not be made more commodiouflyi and 
compendioufly, for performing both thefe requifite motions, of walking 
and climbing up the hair of a manshead, then it is :, for, by having the 
lefler. claw, (a) fet fo much fhort of thebigger (b) when. it:walks on 
the fkin the fhorter.touches.not, and then the feet ‘are the fame with 
thofe ofa Mite, and feveral other fmall. Infeéts, but, by means -of the 
{mall:joynts of thelonger claw it can bend it round, and fo with both 
claws take hold of a hair, inthe manner reprefented in the Figuse) the 
long tranfparent Cylinder FF F, beinga Man’shairheld by itioy on: 
~ The Thorax feem’dcas'd with another kind of fubftance then the bel- 
ly, namely, with a thin tranfparent horny. fubftance, which’ tipomthe 
Siting of the Creature did not grow flaccid ;- through this I could plain- 
ly fee the blood, fuck'd from my hand, tobe varioutly difiributed,; and 
=  mov'd to and fro; and. about G there :feem'd. a pretty-big white fub- 
 ftance, which feem‘d to, be moved within its thorax; befides, theréiap- 
_ pear’d very many fmall, milk-whiteveflels, which croft over the breaft 
a3 se ' between 
ark ftrokes difappear'; 
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