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thrust forth into the world, for the supply of 

 themselves and their fellow-creatures, it demon- 

 strates a benevolence, and not a prodigality in 

 nature to stock the elements with such a nu- 

 merous increase, as my self and others have cu- 

 riously inspected. So that sometimes one ani- 

 mal, and sometimes another, infinitely excels as 

 to the angler's recreation. 



But the classis of worms are multiform and 

 various ; manifestly the lob, or more properly 

 the dew-worm, knob or knotted worm ; red- 

 worm, brandlin, gild-tail, marish-worm ; flag 

 and dock-worm, tag and tagil, spotspere, munck 

 and muck-worm ; cod-w r orm and straw-worm, 

 Sec. But it's impossible to enumerate the in- 

 numerable sorts and varieties of worms, and the 

 texture of insects, (different also in shape, co- 

 lour, beauty, and proportion,) except propheti- 

 cally instructed beyond the due mediums of 

 art, or otherwise inspected by natural observa- 

 tion : as when to imagine some of them smooth, 

 of a contrary quality are those that are ruff, 

 fretted, and knotted. The various like we read 

 of colour, form, beauty, proportion, and com- 

 plexion ; as when to inspect some of them red, 

 some others green, some red and green with a 

 greenish cast ; and some green with a reddish 

 tincture ; and some affected with a glance of 

 both : some again display a brownish, blewish, 



