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CLASS VI. 



WORMS. 



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THE Animals of this Clafs are of flow motion, foft fubftance, 

 able to increafe their bulk and reitore parts which have been 

 d itroyed, extremely tenacious of life, and the inhabitants ot moiit 

 jjlaces. Many of them are without diftindt. bead, and molt ot them 

 without/^/. They are principally diitinguiffted by their tent acuta 

 or feelers 



By the Ancients they were not improperly called imperfect ani- 

 mas, as being deftitute of ears, nofe, head, eyes and legs \ and are 

 therefore total iy dirtincl: from Infe&s. 



They are divided in to five Orders* 



I. INTESTINA. 



II. MOLLUSCA. 



Are of a formation the moft fimple, and 

 live, fome of them within other animals, 

 fome in waters, and a few in the earth. 

 The Gordiui perforates clay to give a pas- 

 fage to fpiings and water; the Lumbruus 

 pierces the earth, that it may be expofed 

 to the action of the air and moifture : in 

 like manner, the Teredo penetrates wood, 

 and the Phlcai and Mytilus rocks, to effect 

 their diiTolution, 



Are naked, furnifhed with tentacula or 

 arms, for the moil part inhabitants of the 

 fea ; and by their phofphoreous quality, 

 illuminate the dark abyfs of waters, re- 

 flecting their lights to the firmament Thus 

 what is beneath the water correfponds 

 with that which is above. 



III. TESTACEA, 



