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The Natural Hiftory of the Book IX. 
The Sta-LeEECH. 
WON HE common People call this thie Sea, or the Black-pudding : 
However, I fhall call it, the Sea-leech; it hath the Name of 
Black-pudding from its great Refemblance to it. 
Its ordinary Bulk is about five Inches long, and two in Breadth ; 
yet I have known it to extend itfelf above eight Inches in Length. 
They are generally found clinging to the lower Sides of Rocks or 
Stones, between high and low Water-mark. “este 
They have no Appearance of Eyes, Legs, or Feet; at leaft, to the 
naked Eye. : 
Their Motion is very flow, and of the mufcular Kind. 
When the Tide of Flood begins to wath the Holes they are in, they 
extend from what we muft now call the Head-Part, in a Bunch, ten or 
twelve Snouts like the Horns of a Snail, all coming from one common 
Root, like a Bunch of Coral; the Top of each being far wider than the 
Shank. 
Tam confident, that thefe (if I may be allowed to compare {mall Things 
with great) are defigned, as Trunks are to Elephants, to be the Inftru- 
ments of receiving their Nourifhment thro’ them. 
Having examined the Infide of this, it is one continued Circumyvolu- 
tion of white Guts, not bigger than the bafe String of a Fiddle. 
The Water that it emits, when {queez’d, is of {0 corrofive a Nature, 
that it fmarts very much, and raifes Blifters upon that Part of the Skin, 
upon which it falls. 
The NakepD Sea-SNalt. 
a is generally of about an Inch and an half long; but, as it is 
capable of greatly contracting or expanding itfelf, it appears of va- 
tious Bulk, according to its different Motions; flender, when it extends 
itfelf, and thick almoft to a Roundnefs, when it is contra@ed, 
It is found under the Rocks and Stones near the Shore, 
The Sra-ScorPIon. 
W HAT we call here the Scorpion, is by Petiver called Stella 
marina Scolopendroides. 
Its five Rays might perhaps properly caufe it to be called the Syella 
Marina. 
