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which proves that End is clofed, or, in other 

 Words, that the Wound is healed. But if 

 any of it does pufh out, when fed immedi- 

 ately after cutting, as now and then hap- 

 pens in the above Cafe, the whole Worm 

 will quickly be protruded, and the Sides 

 of the Wound unite. When all this is per- 

 formed, which frequently requires lefs thaa 

 an Hour's Time, it plays its Arms, and (ex- 

 cepting its being unable to fatten or hang by 

 the Tail-End) appears as well as any other 

 Polype 3 and in a few Days produces a new 

 Tail. 



But the Tail-Part, where an Head is 

 wanting, requires a longer Time to make fo 

 good an Appearance: for though it foon 

 fattens by the Tail, contracts, and extends, 

 which are undoubted Tokens of its being 

 alive, it is totally difabled from eating till it 

 produces a new Head, furnittied with Arms 

 to feize and hold its Preyj which, in cold 

 Weather, requires a Week or more 5 but, in 

 Summer, is often effedled in three or four 

 Days. As foon as the Arms come out, it 

 will eat greedily, and may be reckoned a 

 perfect Polype 5 and, if well fed, will grow 

 longer and larger than thofe that never were 

 cut, but the Arms are generally fliorter, and 

 more blunted at the Extremities. 



If a Polype is divided through the Middle, 

 Length-ways, the two Halves will com- 

 monly eredt thejaifelves on their Tail-Ends, 



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