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in a Dog plentifully fed for other purpofesO juft as we Bod 
in worm-eaten tracks of wood, where the Cc^kave behind 
them the wood which hath pafs'd through their bodies; Thc/e 
worms lay rooftly with the fmallends upward^ as feeding up« 
onand expeiSiDg the Chyle in its dcfcent. Jhtk lumbrki 
lati were none of them above one foot ioogj and moft oft hem 
of an equal length and bigncfs. The one end was as broad 
as my little finger-nail , and pointed like a laf^cet $ the other 
end, coroiogrmall gradually for the third part of the whole 
length of the animal, was 4«^?/lisf, br ended ioa fmall button 
like a pin-head. They were every-where and in all parts of 
them alike mi!k white, of a flat and thin fubftance like fine 
Tape, divided into iiifioite rings and incifures, each inci- 
fure havingTi&^r/? angles, on both fides, looking to the broader 
end ftanding out beyond each other : From which alfo I take 
the fmall end to be the head 3 elfe the (harp corners of the 
amhli would neceflarily hinder the Afcent of the Animal | 
whereas, if the contrary be true, theyferveto keep it up^ 
Each ring hath alfo on the one fide only, and that alternately, 
one fmall protuberance^much like the midle feet of the body 
Df feme Caterpillers, r 
After 1 have thusdefcribed them to you, Idefire you to 
view the Cut ofTulpiur in the laft years Edition of his Medic, 
Ohfervat.Lz c.i^2'^ where he retrafts the firft /^z^re, given us 
io the Edirioo of that book in the year 1652. And yet I can- 
not fay, that all in thislaft is true • for 3 to me, xhtriUmmd 
eye in the there fuppofed head of the animal fecm to be the 
meer faoci^ of thepsiinterj not to fay, that probably the 
fmaller end is the head, vyhicb^ indeed , is in this Cut wholly 
neglefted. Comparii g our Animals with that Cut of Tulpi* 
us , it was not very cafy for me tooblerve, bee^uleof the 
great refemblancpj the fpecifick difference of the lumhriciU'^ 
#i of Men and thofe of this Animal. 
I was not fo happy as to difcover any motion in any part of 
them , in water or out of it , nor did they feem ^ if pricked 
or oihcrwifc hurt, mucb(if at ajl) to contraft themfelvesor 
fliortcn I he Annuity ^o that they th?n appeared to me as things 
without motion or feoftt 
