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On the internal JormaLion uj an Ox's Tongue ; and on that of tie Hearty 

 in Animals, Fowls, and FiJJj, 



CERTAIN profellional crentleman of my acquaintance, was 

 urgent with me to examine the formation of a cat's tongue, but 

 tliis I deferred from time to time, wiihing rather, to inveftigate the 

 nature of the human tongue, which I thought would be much more 

 worthy of examination ; by reafon, that it mufl neceflarily be pro- 

 vided with more mufcles than the tongues of animals : for, this 

 will appear manifeft, if we. confider how many various motions our 

 tongues murt exert in fpeaking, finging, or whiflling. 



Not finding an o])portunity to procure an human tongue, or that 

 of a cat, I began by examining the tongues of o en, cutthig from 

 them fmall pieces, both longitudinally and tranfverfely : and, though 

 I thought that a complete defcription of the whole tongue would 

 take up too inuch time and labour, I determined to give a drawing 

 of the fmall mul'cles, and point out how they are difpofed longitu- 

 dinally and tranfverl'ely ; for, in an ox's tongue, the number of them 

 is incredible, and in this defcription will be leen, not only the won- 

 derful formation and multitude of thefe minute mufcles, but alfo, 

 we fliall be fully fatisfied witli regard to the manner in which the 

 tongue is fometimes extended a«d fometimes contracted, both in 

 breadth and thicknefs. 



In Plate VIII. fig. 1 1, A B C DE F G 1 1 1 K L M, reprefents a fmall 

 piece of an ox's tongue, cut oft' from the fide, in that part where the 



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