at my leifure. I found them not to differ from what I 
gave an Account of in my Letter of the /^th oi Novemb, 
idgi. unlelsitwere thatfome of the hairs in thefefup- 
pofed worms were fo tender, that they broke in two upon 
the leaft touch, Other worms feem'd to be a bundle of 
hairs, but when I went to feperate them, it was juft as if 
I had toucht a foft fat body. 
I fqueezed fome black (pecks out of the thick of my 
ownNofe, whichIfawtobebund4esoi hairs, Ithentook 
out hairs from one of them to the number of 3 
Fig, A.BrC* B.E. is a bundle of hairs, as it appears 
in^a Microfcope, the part C before I took it out of 
my Nofe, lay even with the skin, and appear'd like a 
black fpeck:,- thehairs werenotail of a length, but one 
flood out more than another, as at 5. alinglehair ftand- 
ingout as 5. was tranfparent, and in the lower part oi 
the bundle C. D. E, A, all the hairs together were tran- 
fparent. In fome bundles of hairs the part next the skin 
lay quite even, as if it had been cut with a pair of fizers» 
I * Z>. were the roots of hairs, lying one of them deeper 
than another. 
I took the worms out of the Nofes of 2 other perfons, 
and I found the number of hairs in a bundle, to be from 
3, 4, j^, and 9. to 2/, and Jo. when the worms lay deep- 
eft in the Nofe, they feldom contained any hairs, un- 
lefs the perlon they came from w^ere very black , and 
then the hairs were more ealily perceivable. 
Ill the preffing but of worms, I could tell whether 
there were hairs in them or no, for if thefubftance came out 
ftreight, then there were alwayshairs, but if bended and 
bow'd, none. . . . 
The make and conformation of thefe worms, I fuppole 
to be after this manner. When the Pvoot of a hair lying 
deepm the skm, fupplies fo much nourifliment as to make 
the hair grow out and appear upon the face, the upper 
part,;9f t|>,^ hair by rubbing, or fom^;.c>therr<viQlence, 
comes 
