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anguille of vinegar. ‘This fpecies is much rarer, 
Nor is it to be found on every roof. The head 
and 
legs terminated by two long claws a little curved; whe- 
ther the two hind ones were terminated by three, four, or 
five, could never be afcertained ; circumftances were very 
feldom fo favourable as to admit of the others being feen. 
In fome, I thought the eye might be diftinguithed, and an 
aperture for receiving 2liment. There is a great diffe- 
rence of fize. Moft of them are of an opaque dufky 
brown, which feems their natural colour. Some are per- 
featly tranfparent, which I fuppofe are dead, for no mo- 
tion has ever been evident, although the fa@ is not abfo- 
lutely certain. 
I know very little more of the propagation of this animal 
than that of the former, except from conjecture. One 
night in May, I was furprifed to fee three large round 
fubftances in the body of a floth: it made no impreffion 
on me at the time ; but returning to obfervation, feveral 
nights afterwards, I faw the body of another, of the largett 
fize, completely filled from end to end of the whole with 
ten large eggs. I do not think there was room for one 
more. Every moment I expected to fee an egg proceed 
from the body. ‘The obfervation was continued for hours, 
and during the next day. ‘The fame number remained : 
the animal was then obfcured by fome particles of matter, 
and all endeavours to recover it ineffeQual. Nor has my 
fuccefs been greater with the few others appearing with 
eggs ; for, notwithftanding all poflible care and attention, I 
“never could fee one prodrced. The floths containing 
them were all perfectly tranfparent and motionlefs. The 
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