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ting with several others, entered the liver j all the veins proceeding 

 from the viscera along the mesentery were very large and full of 

 dark blood. 



" The tongue was thick and fleshy, about an inch in length and 

 two-thirds in breadth, white in colour, and covered thickly with 

 elongated papillce ; the tip was rounded, the base heart-shaped. 

 Between the glottis and base of the tongue so siight a distance in- 

 tervened, that the larynx might be said to open directly into the 

 mouth, the glottis rising to a point corresponding with and adjusted 

 to the heart-shaped indentation at the base of the tongue. This 

 elevated apex is divided downwards and a little way longitudinally 

 by the rima. The larynx is supported posteriorly by the os hyoides, 

 which is broad, flat, and pointed with double barbs, resembling 

 some double-barbed arrow heads : it is however composed of three 

 bones, viz. a body, and two long curved bones united by cartilages 

 to it, the body itself ending in two long cartilaginous processes ; 

 where the osseous processes arise there is also on each side a small 

 cartilaginous projection. An inch below the rima the trachea divides 

 into two branches, or bronchice, which run down for a little way on 

 each side of the neck, but shortly, in consequence of the bend of the 

 neck, almost at the back of it, and describing in their course a large 

 sigmoid inflexion, they then subdivide and immediately enter the 

 lungs. About half an inch below the great division a strong muscle 

 of two or three lines in breadth passes across, arising from the ver- 

 tebra of the neck on one side and united to the same on the oppo- 

 site, thus acting as a constrictor on the two tubes, and being doubt- 

 less of use in the deglutition of air. The length of the trachea and 

 the great branches to the lungs was 7J inches ; the rings were per- 

 fect. The subdivisions of the bronchice before entering the lungs arc 

 surrounded closely by numerous yellow glands." 



