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parts of it, by its infinuating itfelf into the inequa- 
lities of the coral rock, or by grafting pieces of 
fhells, part of which dill remain in it, with the flefhy 
fub dance grown over them. 
This {hews us the indlnd of nature, that direds 
thefe animals to preferve themfelves from the vio- 
lence of the waves, not unlike the anchoring of 
mufcles, by their fine filken filaments, that end in 
fuckers j or rather like the fheily bales of the Ser- 
pula, or Worm-diell, theTree Oyder, and the Slipper 
Barnicle, dec. whofe bales conform to the diape of 
whatever fubdance they fix themfelves to, grafpingit 
fall with their tedaceous claws, to withdand the fury 
of a dorm. 
When we view the infidc of this animal difleded 
lengthways, we find a little tube like a gullet leading 
from the mouth to the domach, from whence there 
rife eight wrinkled fmall guts, in a circular order, 
with a yellowilh foft l'ubftance in them; thefe bend 
over in the form of arches towards the lower part of 
the bulb, from whence they may be traced down- 
wards, to the narrow part of the upright tube, till 
they come to the flefhy adhering tube, where fome 
of them may be perceived entering into a papilla, or 
the beginning of an animal of the like kind, mod 
probably to convey it nourilhment, till it is provided 
with claws : the remaining part of thele flender 
guts are continued on in the flefhy tube, without 
doubt for the fame purpofe of producing and fup- 
porting more young ones from the fame common 
parent. 
The many longitudinal fibres, that we difeover 
lying parallel to each other, on the infide of the 
l'emi- 
