LEETUEE^XIL. 
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Ampiig/ihe tjie j 
»!^l^v5^erii3^^ :is that which he calls :Ftiria.o< t5he re 
i^iOtdy pi^.^ecies, which is called infewna^ 
/iVjjOXrf the- Infernal Fury and not without /good 
reason j if we may rely, on the accounts whlclisha?© 
been given of the torments it sometimes inflicts on 
the person it happens to attack. Its character 4s>; a 
thin, thread-shaped body, edged along each -side 
with a row of sharp, reversed prickles, lyingooWsh 
to the edge of, the body, or at very acute ajigiesjr 
It bears a resemblance therefore tpL,a niinute:^Oi 7 
lopondra or Centipede, and from the structjuj^ of 
its body, is enabled to perforate the skin in aijin- 
stant, so as not to be extracted without extrcnJ*? 
difficulty. It is pretended that this wormjiin the 
marshy parts of Sweden, and some other ^coun- 
tries, is conveyed by some meajis or other through 
the air, and drops on the bodies of cattle and meui 
producing almost immediately a pajin so,, insup- 
portable as sometimes to prove fatal in, the space 
of a quarter of an hour. Linnaeus tells qs, that he 
himself once experienced the effects qf th^^ anh 
mal, near the city of Lund in Swedep. j, 
lander once gave a slight description of this-j^prip;; 
but, from the difficulty of obtaining recent spoq^- 
