Note k — BOOK IX.
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That Earth-worms live upon Earth, is manifest from the little curled Heaps of their Dung ejected out of their Holes. But in Philos. Transact. Nᵒ. 291, I have said, it is in all Probability Earth made of rotted Roots and Plants, and such like nutritive Things, not pure Earth. And there is farther Reason for it, because Worms will drag the Leaves of Trees into their Holes.