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nous and trMfparent J without eyes or head (that he could 
obferve,) but in (lead of a head^it bath a hollow foout cocom- 
paflcd with a very hard membrane, differing in colour and 
fubilaoce from the belly 5 which foout it thrufts whole into 
the body of the fidi^ (as ftrongly as an auger is wound into a 
piece of woodj) and fills it full of blood unto the very ori- 
fice, [t hash a tail fliaped like a feather^ ferviog for its moti- 
oojaod^uoder it, two filaments or flender fibres, longer than 
the whole Infedj whereby, it fceras, it clings about ftones or 
h^rbs^and fticks the cloferio the body of the Sword-fifhj of 
which it attacks thofe parts only, where the fins of the filh 
cannot couch or trouble it 5 the Obfcrver affirmiog, that he 
hath often found it fticking in the back and in the belly, and 
iometiroes clofe to thehead,fometimes clofe to the tail of that 
fiftijbut always far etiough from the fins. Within its belly he 
noted fome veffels^like fmall guts,reaching from one end of it 
to the orher, which by the prefliire of his nail he made reach 
to the orifice of the foout, whence they retired back of them- 
felvcs to their natural fciiuation 5 they fteming to be the in- 
ftrumenrs for fucking the blood, becaufe the fnout is in it felf 
ao empty part,deftitute of fibres and valves to draw and fuck 
wiih 5 whereas thefe veffels have a motion ti&fembling that of 
a pump,!!! Which the foout of this animal ferves for a fucker^ 
drawing the blood from one end to the other : And the belly 
of this Infedt being framed riog-wife, the ftrufture ferves to 
rhrufl the faid inner veffels unto the orifice of the trunk, and 
to draw them back again* This creature as it torments the 
S wordfifb , fo it is, by our Obfervers rclation,vexcd it felf by 
another loled,Vi?hich he calls a /Lcrip/S.of an aflh colour, faftncd 
towards the tail of this Leech as fermly, as a fea-faail is to a 
rock.'Tis of the bigncfs of a pea^and hath an opening, whence 
come our many fmall winding and hairy threds* It hath dot 
been cbferved, (as far as our Author could learn,) 
to f rouble, or to be upon, any other animal than this 
Leech. 
, 4. A parcel of Sal Armoniac^ brought away it om Sicily <y 
where it had been gathsir'dvia' the late, ^fiery Eruption of 
yimm Mtna^ having been there found copiouily, fome days 
afier ihat the fire was -extioguiflit, upon the furface of chat 
