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feme {liming Worms in Oyfters ; M. Au^out, being made ac- 
quainted with it, did firfl: conceive, they were not Worms 
( unlefs they were cruftied ones ) thatiliin’d, as having not 
been able then to difeern any parts of aWorm> but only fome 
Ihining clammy moyfture ; : which appeared indeed like a little 
Star of a blewiflr colour , and ftuck to the Oyfter-fheil ; be- 
ing drawn out , {hone in the Air its whole !e.ngth(wbich was 
about four or five lines,) and when put upon the Ob/ervers 
handjContinued to ftiine there for fome time, 
2. That M. Auyout afterwards, caufiug more than 20. dou- 
zen of Oyfters to be open'd at Candle-light , really faw, 
in the dark, fuch Alining worms in them ; and thofe of three 
forts. One fort was whitifh , having 24 or 25 feet on each 
fide, forked ; a black fpeck ©none fide of the head (taken 
by him for a Chry ft ailin') & the back like an Eele^ftript off her 
skin The fecond \ red , and refembling the common Glow- 
worms, found at Land, with folds upon their backs , and feet 
like the former j and with a nofe like that of a dog , and one 
eye in the head The third fort was fpeckled, having a head 
like that of a Sole, with many tufts of whitifh hair on the 
fides of it, 
3. That, befides thefe, the Obfervev faw fome much bigger, 
that were grayifh, with a big head, and two horns on it, like 
thofe of a Snayl, and with 7. or 8. whitifh feet 3 but thefe 5 though 
kept by him in the nighr 3 fhin’d not. 
4. That the two fir ft forts are made of a matter eafily re- 
foluble, the leaft {baking or touch turning them into a vif- 
cous and aqueous matter i which falling from the {hell, ftuck 
to the Obfervers fingers, and fhone there for the fpace of 20. 
feconds : and if any little part of this matter, by ftrongly fhak- 
ingthe fhell 3 did falj to the ground, it appear’d like a little 
piece of a flaming Brimftone ^ and when fliaken off nimbly, it 
became like a {mall Ihining Line, which was diflipated before 
it came to the ground. 
5 . That 
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