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ie NATURAL HISTORY. 
The earth Worm, is of an oblong form, and is like the round Worrit 
that is bred in human bodies: the largeft fort are fix inches long, and 
may be firetched to be a foot in length: they are of a reddith flefh co- 
jour, and moft of them have a ring round the neck, or rather a fort of 
a necklace, in which there is alittle blood. Some of thefe fort have been’ 
feen ten inches long, and above an inch in diameter: this is by fome 
éalled the lob Worm, and>the dew Worm, and is to be met with in 
gardens and other places, by the afliftance of a lanthorn, late in a fum- 
mers evening. In great droughts they never appear, and therefore if 
_ any of them are wanted as‘baits for fith, they may be forced out of the 
earth, by pouring the juice of walnut tree leaves, mixed with a little 
water and falt, into their holes, ae 
. The Brandling, gilt tail; and red Worm, are all to be found in old 
dung-hills, or the rotten earth that is near them; but the beft for fith- 
ing, are thofe found in tanners yards, under the heaps of bark, which’ 
are thrown out after they have done with it 3 but the Brandling is moft 
eafily found in hog’s dung. ; 
The marth Worm, is to be met with in marfhy places, near the banks’ 
of rivers, and is of a bluith colour; the Tag-tail is of a pale fleth co- 
Your, with a yellow tag on its tail, almoft half an inch long: they are 
to be found in fields that have been manured with marle, and in mea- 
dows after a thower of rain. AMoufet obferves, that Worms in general 
are of a more whitifh colour, after heavy fhowers of rain: they have 
the parts of generation belonging to both fexes; but they do not wind 
about each other like Serpents, when they are joined. When a lob 
Worm has been opened, there has been found a fort of an annulated 
gut, covered with a thin membrane, which had a very ftrong {mell: 
the eggs lye over the gut near the mouth, and they are of a whitifh 
colour. Some‘ fuppofe that they feed chiefly upon earth, becaufe there’ 
is always fome found within them when they aré opened; however it 
_ ds certain they are fond of crumbs of wheat bread, and will feed upon 
them greedily when they lie in their way. Many of them are deftroyed 
in very dry fummers, and by the cold in winter : they are very often’ 
fo numerous in gardens, that they doa great deal of mifchief; but 
they may be eafily taken and deftroyed, in the manner above mentioned- 
The fea Worm, is above a foot in length, and as thick as a man’s 
finger. It is of a pale red colour, and compofed of rings, or annular 
. joints, like the earth Worm ; but the fkin is rough, for all the fkin is 
covered with little prominences. It is found in the mud upon the jea 
fhore, and ferves for food to many forts of fith: the common earth’ 
Worms in Peru, are larger than theie, for.they are as long as a man’s 
arm, and thicker than the thumb. 
The round Worm, bred in the inteftines of a human body, confilts 
of rings like the earth Worm, it being without feet, and much of the 
fame fhape’ but it differs from it in being of a white colour: they are 
not only bred-in the guts, but in other parts, and particularly in the ~ 
heart, for there are inftances of their having veen found therein: they 
have alfo been met with in the guts of horfes, oxen, calves, dogs, hogsy 
and hawks, befides many other animals, infomuch that it is hard to 
fay whether any fpecies of animals are free from them or not: they 
éaufe various diforders and difeafes in human bodies, for they not only i 
produce pain, but confumptions, conyullions, fevers, and pains a 
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