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mentioned, in any other habitation. Linne indeed 

 assigns an aquatic origin to the fluke, the asca- 

 rides, and the tape-worm, but he seems to have 

 adopted this opinion upon very slight grounds. 

 Bonnet very justly asks, with respect to the last 

 of these animals, which Linne states he found 

 once in a kind of ochre. " M. Linne is the only 

 one that has made this discovery, now if it was 

 certain that tape- worms existed out of the body 

 of man and other animals, would it be possible, 

 after the numerous researches that naturalists of 

 every country have made in a variety of places, 

 both in the earth and the water, none should 

 ever meet with that insect T' 1 All Helmintholo- 

 gists seem now to be of opinion that the sole 

 natural habitation of these animals is that in 

 which they are usually found, the human vis- 

 cera. t)ili UJ J r J m# ,ii: 



We now come to the last hypothesis, that these 

 animals were created subsequently to the fall : a 

 single instance from Scripture of such a creation 

 will be sufficient to render it probable that others 

 may have taken place when occasions called for 

 such expressions of Divine displeasure. Every 

 one is aware that God by the wonder-working 

 rod of Moses converted all the dust of Egypt 

 into some punitive animal or genus of animals, 

 for they attacked man and beast, concerning 



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