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Show Book II. 0/ the {fr/h sf Mt And. about an‘ Inch i f , or more above the‘ Firlt Branches of t"ti"cli m m"\_ll\')l _ ..i,ii,1' i i ~ each iidc one, {pringing out of the arterial Trunk, and each (\ftlieni is ‘ I l , ; i \‘ided intoa pair of Branches, which take their progrel" all aloiiu thv liiii'd: part of thetwo lemicircular bony Arches, belongihU to the ":01"; ("if and thele greater Branches are again divaricatetl iiitoamanv linallcir Rli‘lil: lets, terminating into one common Trunk, which "lit-cling backunid is 0f the Lung; and (ii/[I of [*1/11 C H A P. i300}; II. XLil. afterward diVided into numerous arterial Branches, tl‘filllinltflll" Blood i:r Hales, and all cctaceotis Fifh have Lungs muc'h refembling thole of (Luadrupedcs in their Divarications of the Bronchia, Vefi. cles, and Blood-veilels. T flung"? The Lungs of a Porpefs atefurnifhed only with tWo [ obes, one each {ide ibis] one, encompafling the Right and Left Region of the Heart, they are mall thick in their Origens, and grow into more narrow and thin Expanlions about their Terininations; and are beautified with a pale Red, and in one part do fomewhat adhere to the Midrifl; and areevery Way immured within a flrong Membrane. . ‘ Zg‘tzcngl‘gfc As to their fubltance, they may be {hleda curious Compage, made up ofnu- of: Porn {5. merous greater and lmallcr Branches of Air-pipes,and appendant Smur,accompanicd with many pulmonary and bronchial Divarications of Arteries and ,Vtins, framed in reticular Plexes, which I plainly law in a Difleéied Porpels, with \iVonder and Delight. T,,m",,sof The Lungs in this Fifli are accommodated with many Nerves, branched :2},l‘,"}':0d_ throughthc liibitance of the Lungs, and accompanying the Blood-Velma VcITulsy-c- 1 he Bronchia are aflbciated with many finall Glands, which Dr. 73%»; firiirflhiéii‘is '1vi'tthur h‘ "mm": 's 3n:,f;€;§"$$ GIMJS- obferved to be Stcatamatom in a Porpels he Difleéted. And I humbly coneeivethat humane Lungs, have Glands too, feared about the Divaricarions of the "mum in the lubflzanceof the Lungs, and the ufe may be to percolate the Blood, whofe purer part is received into the extremities of the Veins, and the recrements into the origens of the Lympheduéts, and conveyed into the fubclavian Veflels. "the Gills of The Gills of Fifh are Syfiemes of numerous Branches of Arteries and :flflfafim Veins formed into Arches, and affixed to bony Procefles, to keep them in :fifflfi'jms due order, and to give them a defence again" the aflaults of ill accidents. Fmrcimhr Tliel‘e curious .Contexturcs of Veflels have fome affinity with more .oftlie bonyl'iu, . talks. pulmonary Arteries, and \ ems, as the Blood, coming from the Ventricle oi the Heart in mofi Filli, is firfl: impelled into the Trunk and Branches ofthc florid, and then into the Branchial Arteries, and afterward received into the extremities of the Branchial Veins , (‘0 that the Blood of Filh makttha circuit through the various Blood-vellels of the Gills, in form manner re- fembling that in the pulmonary Veflcls, whereby the Blood of Fifh is impregnated with airy Particles in the Gills, as well as in the fubflaiice of the "mm" Lungs relating to other Animals. And now I will endeavour to give you an account of the Fabrick of grcfi otihc "WWW the. Gills in a Skaite, and of the Trunk and Divarications of the Artery, en‘ _ Artericsand tring into them after this manner; out of the bale of the Heart arileth : . Xiiii,5 "1mm great Trunk of an Artery, (encircled with a white hard Shell) which climb1.1‘. 1" eth upright fingle, for an lnch or thereabouts, and is then divided into TWO Branches, on eachfide one, and afterward each Branch is fubdivided into three, which on each fide run along the lower Region of the Three firfl bony Arches of the Gills, which are befet with many minute Divatications, fprouting out of the lirll greater Branches, and end into one common Trunk And all parts of the body of Filli, which is brought back again {0 the Hour iii: venous Branches and Trunks; to that evcry indentiuent of the leiiiicir/ cular Arches (garnilhed with many Branches of Arteries) isauain aniivcr: ed with an equal number of venous Divarications; Arid thofeoi‘ithe dt-Fcen- 1""‘air'ur‘ dcnt Trunk of the C4714, do addrefs tlieiiifelves to the illiit‘ udent of thc arcanlw Which: c i ,a‘orta; and the Branches of the afcendent Trunk of the (new V i do "' "‘1" ' ‘apply iiumhc themfelves to thofe of the defcenticnt Trunk of the Agrta, which now be ‘wciis. i manifefi by opening the arterial and venous Branches, appendzinr to El)" lower regions of the arches of the Gills, fringed with many Red indent: ments, into which may eafily be feen the 1'OVVS of holes leading into them {0 that a Black Liquor being injected into the Arteries of the Gills it will return again by the Veins; And the Black Liquor being immittcd 3into the "\Hmri Arteries, fome part palleth into the Fringes of the Gills and another 5m: i0 . carried in a firaight courlc into the delceiideiit Trunk oi. the Aorttz' wihierce) T; it may be clearly deduced, that the Gills in Filh, do liipolv the place )ofLuri m I V i .111more Perfect AnimalS, through which the Blood takeih its circuit to ii: iiiiiiiiilidh impregnated with the more pure and nitrous parts of Air, which bZ‘lI‘" al-~ {immatfociated with Water, are received into the Mouth and Gills of Fill] ‘Lahd ELMO." afle'ét the Blood, Falling up and down the Red Fringes of the bony Alrches which are ranks of Arteries and Veins, exporting and importinw vitalLit noifrom and to the Heart. a i I A‘SO that the Water infpired with the more thin and nitrous Particles of Réramzy; $331133 efelcfilthgough tfie Poires (if the Arteries ( affixed to the I through and Veiiis king goodArteries the circulatio 0 t edm n , 1?Logan l0 greatmac B 00d, Falling 1 to3 tie hine chotiOIi and {Cpfimng , ma- 5"" u if Whereu PH 0 't e uip e Juyce. . _ . quent Receiiii) n1 :1[Say be Paid to have a kind of Refpii'ation, made in a fit:Air which bein, fputting out great flrcams of Water, infpired With V 3 g tran mitted through the Gills ( drefled w1th Arteries and ems) enobleth the Blood With elalicick and f iritous Parti l l i h d very much cont-'b n ute to the prefervat ' of the PVital ' flames, Cwhich ion es, "'7is"C ' O extinuifla d ‘ ' t ~ . tghel cfirrgrlltFlglf mfg-ding in waters, enclofed With Ice, wholly intercepting |