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Show Tab. L X. Fig. i. The Headrfa flog'Fi/b opened. Nderthe Skullof a Dog-filh (Called Galen: Lair) may be feen three forts of clammy Liquor, The Firlt is lodged immediately under the Skull, beingthick and highly vifcide-7 The Second is a Crilialline Humor, {cated in the middle, and the Third Liquor is a molt glutinous grol‘s Matter, immediately covering the Coats of the Cmbmm, Cerebellum, and Mrdullafizimlir. The Brain ofthis Filh is very remarkable, and very difl‘erent from that of other Filh, as being is made of three Apartiments, or large ProceWes, which confifto'diverfe parts, Tile Firl't +a. adorned with a Semilunary Figure +, whofe Convex Surface is fer upward, and the Concave btlow, encircling, the upper region of the middle Province of the Brain. To the Horns of the Semilunary Prominence, are aflixed two other Procelles, (which refemble Legs) to +3 B. which are appended two Procdl‘es, not unlike Feet 1: Thefe parts, I conceive, are the ‘Ilulami nerwmm a'ptiwrum. +5 b. The middle [tory of the Brain 1' is very Prominent, and ibmewhat rel'cmbleth in plump. +CC. The Third Province of the Brain confilteth of Two Procefl'es 1- (much leis then the other) and eachof them is beautified with a Semi-lunary Figure :, thefe Procciles are inflituted by Nature é asl apprehend) to fupply the place of Natifotm Proceflés. The Cmbe um is compared of diverfe ranks of Proceflies, amiddle, and two latcralones: The middle 1- is made up of many greater and lefs Semi-lunary Procefl‘cs,enclofed above in the Concave Surface of the Teitiforme or Natilorme Procefl‘es; and below to the inward rowe oflatc1411. ta! + H. {mall Proceflés T which are again immured on each-{ids with greater Proccfl‘es f, +:. graced with an Oval Figure. fff The optick Nerves r are derived fromthe {ides of the Medulla ublungaia, and pnlfing through proper perforations of the Skull, are inferred into the infidc of the Eyes. +3 g. On each fide of the beginning of the Medal/a Spinalil proceedcth a Nerve 1 60%th will"! Black Tnnicle, and pairing all along the outlide of the Skull, over the upper part 01' the 1' lab. Eye, after an lnch, is inferted with many Fibrils + into the upper Mandible, and alhltetb its Mulcles in their contraction, by which it is lifted up. ‘ . ‘ .2171"; emu-qr "tpeaafiq nels, the Brealt of a fat Child‘7 its Convex part is received into the Concave bolorn of the upper Province, and is the Medullary fubl'tance of the Brain. "DMD-" ml!!!" Fig. 2. The Scale: of a Gar-Fifi. A‘ Thefe Scales are various in Magnitude and Figure, and all confilt of various Triangles, drefl‘ed with fcvetal Fibrils, running in variety of pol'tures. , beautia a. Scme item to be of an Oc‘langular Figure, {sated in the middle of the Scales, and are fied with different Fibrils. 0f confifi which Scales, ofiangular the of fide each on 1: H25. StalCS refembling Lounges, placed \arrous Figures, drefl'ed with diverfe Triangles. Fig. 3. 0f the Stale: of a Carpe. The fituation of the Scales of a Carp, and other Filh is very curious, as they are plated 0" over another, after the manner of Tiles or Slates, and at lalt inferred into the Skin. regi5 1 a a. The Figure of thei'e Scales feemeth to referable Scolops, as being narrower in the upper on, and broader in the lower. 1a Lb 5. They are drelled with many Filaments, palhng downward in length. Fig. 4.. Reprefenting one Scale of a Cary. The Scale of a Carp, as well as other Filh, is a (@adrangle made of unequal fides, and compo{ed of Four Triangles, whole points are united in the Center of the Scale, wherethcy are conjoyned by a clammy Matter of a Conick Figure. . a a. The superior and Inferior Triangle, confining of perpendicular lines, meeting in the mldd1e as in the Center. . 5b, The lateral wadrangles are framed of many Fibrils running in tranfverf‘e lines, and meet 311m a Center. Both the Superior, Inferior, and latcralTriangles, have their l‘traight and tranfiierfe lines: cover- ed with obfcure lines, running in different pofitions. Tab. LXI. ' |