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ECOIOPENDRA. 
funnels, each having the aperture clofed up with a cover- 
ing of fand, to protect the inhabitant from danger. 
In the Eafl indies and America, there are fcclopendras 
from four to fix inches long, and as thick as the finger: 
When of that bulk, they appear truly hideous, and their 
fling is reckoned as dangerous as that of the fcorpion* 
Some of thefe animals are faid to be without eyes, and 
to dire£t their courfe by means of two feelers that extend 
beyond the head. It has been afferted, too, that when 
cut into pieces, each fegment, like thofe of the polypi, iS 
capable of reproducing an entire animal *. 
* Sarbut, ubi fupr*. 
