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had alfo tlie power, as moft of the many-footed land reptiles, 
and Ibme water-infefls have, of contra£l:ing its body in luch a 
manner, that bending its head inwards, it rolls the reit of irs body- 
round it as a centre, making a figure like a rope coiled into a 
ipire^ and in this pofture, befet almofl -quite round with iharp 
prickles, liarting out dire611y forwards, it guards itfclf from vio- 
Jences that may annoy it. This animal may on many accounts be 
properly ranged with the Scoloperuhie Marinee deicribcd bv 
Rondeletius -^ but it may be diftinguifhed from them, by calling 
it Scolopendra Marina a capite latiori v erf us caudam fen Jim 
gracilefcens, limbo ptkherrime hirfuto, fpiriulifque crebrii in- 
terftinEio e Mart Hibernico, 
aaaaa Fig. 2. Plate VI. the downy lift that runs along the 
back 3 bb the two triangular fcales that cover the Anus ; cccccccc 
the verge of fine changeable green and red hair that covered the 
fides, and part of the back j ddddddd the hard fliarp prickles in- 
terfperled amongft the hair 3 eeeee the ftin of the belly- //// 
ieveral incisures refembling joints towards the tail 5 ggg^(^ dar- 
ker fpots in the fkin of the belly 5 hhhhb the feet of each fide 
the belly • JJJJJJ the fins with their hairy fringe behind the 
feet 3 /: fc the large mouth opened wide. 
"fbe long Worm /;/ the Flefli in the Eaft-Indies. Phil. Tranf. 
N°22 5. p. 417. 
THESE long worms are bred in the water, between Gom- 
roon and Schiraz, in the Eaft-Indles, cfpecially that 
about Laur-^ they come out in any part of the body, fometimes 
to the length of <5 or 7 yards, and are very troublefome and dan- 
gerous, fome lofing their legs and others their lives by them 5 at 
firft, they are fmajl like a thread, afterwards they grow bigaer 
and flronger by degrees. They roll them up on a little bit%f 
flick, or cotton, and lay upon them onions and flower of rice 
boiled in milk 5 the principal thing to be obferved is not to 
break them, for then it is they do mifchief, caufing excefTive pain 
and fwelling. 
"jfhe Internal StruEiure of Fifli^ by 1)r, Charles Preflon 
Phil. Tranf. N° 225. p. 415). 
FISH are remarkably different from all other animals m 
many particulars 3 the moil confiderable difference is their 
want of lungs and rejpiration • and yet it is neceffary that fome- 
thing ihould fupply this in fiflies, which may have the jame ef* 
{Qdi upon their blood, as the air has upon ours, by entring into 
our 
