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foot in length. Tis commonly believed, but erronioutly, 
that this fort of Inf eel is nothing but a Horfe-Hair animated. 
By fome, that they are bred out of Locufis. See Aldrovandus 
hereof. But especially the Obfervations of Mr. Lyfier in 
(«)N. 83. the Phil. Tranf. ( a ) who found them in the Belly of a kind 
of black and not uncommon Beetle 5 in fome one only, in 
others two or three together: of all which he hath feveral 
Remarques. 
Whether there are not a fort of Eggs firft laid by fome 
Animal upon the Beetles Breech, which being hatched eat 
their way into his Belly, may be a Queftion. And therefore, 
whether the like Worries , may not fometimes be alfo found 
in the Bellies of Locufis. 
A SEA-WORME NEST. Tis a piece of TUBULATED 
WOOD f, part of the Jheatbing of a Ship. Brought in, 
by Wormius, improperly amongft Woods, as not being 
naturally Tubulous, but made fo by a fort olSea-Wormes 3 
deferibed by Rondeletius , and out of him, by Aldrovandus 
and others. The Tubular Holes are numerous, of that 
width as to admit a Swans-Quill , very round, equally wide, 
and winding every way too and fro,fo as fome times to run 
one into an other. Moft curiouily lined, or as it were 
Wanfcoted with a white Teftaceous Cruft, of the fame 
fubftance and tlucknefs with tliofe called Tub id 1 Marini. 
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