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the Ikin and flefli, and two pins ftuck to the flefh in the middle 

 of the llomach, which had penetrated through its coat ; and, within 

 the rtomach, were many pins mixed with the food, which, pro- 

 bably, if the fowls had remained alive, would have found a paf- 

 fage out in fome part or other. This being the cafe, it is no won- 

 der that a worm fhould find a palTage, not only into the cavity of 

 the llomach, but into other parts of the body. 



On the 14th of April more Herrings were brought to market; 

 .when I obferved many eggs fcattered among them, fo that I con- 

 cluded for certain, that, at this time, moft Herrings depofite their 

 eggs or roes. 



Again, I took feveral Herrings, and, from the appearance of 

 their intellines, I judged they had been longer out of the water 

 than thofe I formerly examined ; yet, in the intellines of one of 

 thefe, I faw a living worm. 



Moreover, I took, out of the bowel of a male Herring, the foft 

 roe of which was grown to its fiill lize, feveral Herring's eggs, 

 which were in that part of the gut near its orifice ; from whence it 

 again appeared to me, that the fliell or membrane of thefe eggs is 

 fo tough and hard, that it cannot be digelled or dillblved, either in 

 the llomach or inteftines. 



I alio found, in this intefline, many particles not of animal, but 

 vegetable fubllances, and, among them, a hollow piece of a rufli, 

 or fome fuch vegetable ; in which I could very plainly perceive, 

 the pores or tubes of which it was compofed, and alio fome exceed- 

 ingly fmall flat particles, alio confilling of tubes, joined together. 

 I likewife found feveral thin oblong particles, the formation of 

 which could not accurately be dillingiiilhed, they being impervious 

 to the light ; and, among other things, I faw the fliell of a fea-fnail, 

 not larger than a grain of fand, whole circumference was divided 

 into eiglit parts or joints. The fliell of this fnail was fo very 

 thin, that when the moillure it contained was evaporated, it 

 entirely loll its handfome Ihape. And thus it was manifell to me, 



