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apparently larger than it was, in proportion 

 to the body j it appears alfo more pointed 

 towards the mouth than it did before, and 

 upon their a6lually falling into the height 

 of their ficknefs they leave off eating, and 

 remain quite motionlefs with there heads 

 fwelled, and raifed, generally, above their 

 bodies -, and their colour is now a light 

 yellowifh brown, in which the rings of 

 their body may be feen, if you view them 

 clofely. 



They continue thus, without feeding, a- 

 bout three days j then the fwelling of their 

 heads begins to fall, and they caft their old 

 fkins, which tho' on account of their fmall- 

 nefs you may not readily obferve, yet is as 

 compleatly caft now as at their laft moulting, 

 of which the magnifying glafs will fully 

 inform any one. You will know that they 

 are quite recovered by the different appear- 

 ance, which they immediately make after 

 moulting, for they now appear of a very 

 light grey colour about their necks, and 

 the reft of their bodies a dark grey j their 

 heads are no longer fwelled, nor their nofe 

 ftiarp ', their bodies alfo appear flender, and 

 not lb ftiff" and fhortened as when they lay 

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