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through the chest, proved fatal. It was then secured, by fixing 
a rope to its tusks, and dragged ashore after the boat. Mr 
Macgillivray hastened to, the spot, and carefully examined the 
animal, which proved to be the Sea-Horse or Morse. It was 
upwards of ten feet in length ; and two barrels of blubber 
were obtained from it. The tusks, now in the possession of 
Mr Macleod of Harris, measure eight inches and a half in 
length. The inhabitants considered it as a supernatural be- 
ing, adapting to it the ideas which they usually associate with 
the Each Uisg (Water-Horse) an imaginary entity, and the 
Seilch Uisg, an animal supposed, and asserted by people in 
other matters not unworthy of credit, to have been seen on se- 
veral lakes in Harris and Lewis, particularly in Loch Lan- 
guad, which is about twelve miles in length. The largest and 
most perfect specimen of the sea-horse in any collection in Eu- 
rope, is that in the College Museum in Edinburgh, which was 
presented to Professor Jameson by Captain Scoresby. 
27. Intestinal Worms . — Intestinal worms, although they may 
appear to the superficial observer as objects of little consequence 
in the grand scale of being, afford to the naturalist a most inte- 
resting field of observation. Their wonderful distribution in 
the most secret parts of the animal frame ; their remarkable 
structure and economy : their apparent equivocal generation ; 
their connection and relations with some internal, and many ex- 
ternal affections of the animal system ; and their occurring in 
and characterising the different species of animals, from man 
downwards, prove the important rank they hold in natural his- 
tory and in medicine. Their history and economy were studied 
by the great Haller ; and our late illustrious Monro, one of the 
most distinguished physicians Europe ever produced, consider- 
ed them as objects of the highest interest and curiosity. II u- 
dolphi, the celebrated Professor of Anatomy in Berlin, so well 
known to all the anatomists and naturalists of Europe, has, by 
the publication of his classical work on the intestinal vermes, 
which abounds in new facts and observations, increased in an 
eminent degree his already high reputation. And very late- 
ly Bremser, also a German naturalist, in his work, Ueber le- 
bende Wurmer im lebenden Menschen,” has, by his investi- 
gations, descriptions, and ingenious views, still more increas- 
