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f t That this fhiniug matter was of different colour > fome,- 
whitiili, fome, reddiln ; but yet that they afforded both, a 
light which appear’d a violet to his eye. 
6 . That it is very hard to examine thefe worms en- 
tire ( efpecially the white ones) becaufe that at the leaft touch 
they doe burft, and refolve into a glutinous moyfture; whence 
alio if it were not for their feet, that are difeover’d in their 
matter., none would judge them to be Worms. 
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7. That among thofe, which be obferved, he faw two more 
firm, than the reft, which (hone all over - and when they fell 
from the Oyfter, twinkled like a great ftar , fhining ftrongly, 
and emitting rays of a violet-light by turns,for the fpace, (as 
touch’ t above) of 20. feconds. Which Scintillation the @b- 
ferver imputes to this, that thofe worms being alive, and fome- 
times railing their head, fometimes their tayle, like a Carpe, 
the light increafed and Ieffened accordingly j feeing that, 
when they ihone not, he did, viewing them by a Candle, 
find them dead. 
8. That forcibly fhaking the Qyfter-lhelis in the dark, he 
fometimes faw the whole fhell full of lights, now and then as 
bigas a fingers end? and abundance of this clammy matter, 
both red and white, ( which fee judges to have been Worms); 
burft in their holes. 
9. That in the fhaking he faw all th e Co m m u n ica t i o n s of 
thefe little Verminuloits hole's, liketo the hole of Worms in 
Wood. 
10 That in more than 20 douzen of Oyfters he (hook no' 
Ihell ( io.or 12. excepted ) but it emitted light : . And found: 
fome of this light in fixteen of the Oyfters themlelves. 
1 1 . , That this light occurs more frequently in big,than final! 
Oyfters i in thofe that are pierced by the Worm, oftner,,than 
