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foot in length. Tis commonly believed, but erronioufly, 
that this fort of Infecl is nothing but a Horfe-Hair animated. 
By fome, that they are bred out of Loaifts. See Aid rem and us 
hereof. But efpecially the Obfervations of Mr. Lyfier in 
00 N. S3, the Phil. Tranf. (a) who found them in the Belly of a kind 
of black and not uncommon Beetle $* in fome one only, in 
others two or three together : of all which he hath feveral 
Remarques. 
Whether there are not a fort of Eggs firft laid by fome 
Animal upon the Beetles Breech, which being hatched cat 
their way into his Belly, may be a Queltion. And therefore, 
whether the like Worries, may not fometimes be alfo found 
in the Bellies of Locufts. 
A SEA-WORME NEST. Tis a piece of TUBULATED 
WOOD 5 part of the jheatbing of a Ship. Brought in, 
by Wormius, improperly amongft Woods 5 as not being 
naturally Tubulous, but made fo by a fort of Sea-Wormes 5 
defcribed by Rondeletius, and out of: him, by Aldrovandus 
and others. The Tubular Holes are numerous , of that 
width as to admit a Swans-Quill, very round, equally wide, 
and winding every way too and fro,fo as fome times to run 
one into an other. Moft cunoufly lined, or as it were 
Wanfcoted with a white Teftaceous Crufl: , of the fame 
iubdance and thicknefs with thofe called Tubuli Marini. 
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