ON SPORTS AND EXERCISES, 20S 



being taken away, and an equal portion of the flakes 

 carefully removed from each series, to exhibit their seve- 

 ral directions. The subject was reduced to the present 

 size by accurate measurements. 



««, Muscles which extend the pectoral and jugular 

 fins. 



bbbbb, Oblique muscles, which erect the rays of th* 

 single hns. 



ccy Muscles which depress the rays. 



del, Muscles which extend the rays of the tail. 



ee, Interosseal muscles, which close the rays. 



ff, The dorsal series of muscular flakes, 



ggy The vertebral series. 



hh, The abdominal series. 



eV, The ventral series. 



kkk, Three superficial nerves which run longitudinallf 

 between the series of flakes. 



I, Posterior surface of a dorsal flake. 



7», Posterior surface of an abdominal flake. 



n, Anterior surface of a vertebral flake. 



©, Anterior surface of an abdominal flake. 



The middle portion of the fish from whence the flakes 

 have been removed, shews the several directions of them, 

 and also their diiierent thicknesses. The spine appears 

 in the chasm. - - 



VI. 



On the Use and Abuse of Popular Sports and Exercises^ 

 resembling those of the Greeks and Romans, as a 

 National Object, By Samuel Argent Bardslet, 

 M,D. 



[From the Memoirs of the Manchester Society, Vol. I.] 



UMAN nature is so constituted as to require both Recreation or 

 bodily and mental recreation. This instinctive propensity *"^"**"^^"' 

 to amusement in man, is suificiently proved by the uni- 

 versality of the appetite, in every stage of life, under 

 every variety of clime, and constitution of government. 

 But the regulation of this natural propensity difliBrs great- 



