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The whitifh Points feem to be the Eggs of this 
Infed, and the Worms to be fuch as are already 
hatched from them ; and thefe Worms gradually per- 
forating the outward Surface of the Wood, ren- 
dered foft by lying in the Water, made the aforefaid 
Holes, (Sect. II.) and through them worked their way 
into the Subftance of the Wood. 
Sect. IV. 
A fmall Style of Whalebone or Lead, thruft into 
thefe fmall Holes, runs ftrait into them for three or 
four Lines, fo that its outer End always makes a 
right Angle with the Pile: But afterwards, if the 
Style be gently pufhed forward, it does not continue 
in the ftrait Line, but runs either way, generally up- 
ward. 
Sect. V. 
But if one of thefe Piles (Sect. II.) be fplit 
lengthwife with a Hatchet or Wedge, it is found 
full of Paflages, or hollow cylindrical Dudls, each of 
which contains a Worm, furrounded with a thin 
teftaceous Subftance, exaflly filling the Dud, and 
forming its Involucrum or Sheath, in which Sheath 
it can rhove with Freedom. See Sect. XIX. 
Thefe Duds, (Sect. IV.) beginning at the outward 
Surface by a narrow Hole, grow gradually wider, and 
run either ftrait, oblique, upward or downward. 
But what is moft furprifing is, tliat thefe Duds never 
run into one another, nor communicate ; but each 
of them continues feparate for every ftngle Worm. 
Over the Worm’s Head there are found two or three 
Drops of a fait Liquor, thicker than Water, but 
not 
