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large worm of the garden. I faw likevvife feveral animals 

 like earwigs, which I took for young fcolopendrse, and two 

 fmall, white, land-mail mells. I fought no further, but 

 was told a number of different infects were found, and fome 

 of rhem that fucked the blood, which I take to be a kind 

 of leech. There is then no fort of reafon to accufe this 

 gentleman of telling a falfehood, only becaufe he was a 

 better obferver, and had better opportunities than others 

 have had, and it is indeed neither juft nor decent ; on the 

 contrary, it is a coarfe manner of criticifing, to tax a man 

 with falfehood when he fpeaks as an eye- witnefs, and ha-s 

 faid nothing phyfically impomblei 



The rhinoceros fhewn at the fair of St Germain, that 

 which the Count de Buffon and Mr Edwards faw, kept clean 

 in a liable for feveral years, I mall believe had neither worms 

 noi fcolopendrse upon it, neither does this officer of the 

 Shaft efbury report it had ; but he fays, that one covered with 

 mud, in which it had been weltering, had upon it animals 

 that are commonly found in that mud ; and this neither 

 Mr Parfons nor Mr Edwards, nor the Count de Buffon, ever, 

 had an opportunity of verifying, , 



Chardin * fays, that the Abyihnians tame and train the 

 rhinoceros to labour. This is an abfolute fable ; befides, 

 that we have reafon to believe the animal is not capable of 

 inftruetion, neither hiftory not tradition ever gave the 

 fmalleft reafon to make us believe this, nor is there any 

 motive for attempting the experiment, more than for belie- 

 ving 



* Cjhar.dio, torn. iii. p. 45, 



