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then perfeftly ftraight ; and, that when the animal extends its 

 tongue, this flcfliy mufcle, /^. 13, NOPQ, and all the others which 

 lie lengthwiie in the tongue, are extended and become flraight, and 

 tliofe mufcles which lie acrofs the tongue are then inflected or bent 

 i!i like manner as reprefented in the former mufcle at^^. 13, NOPQ. 



When this mufcle had Hood three months before the microfcope, 

 it became covered with a fort of mouldinefs,* which, bearing a re- 

 femblance to fmall flowers, I dire6ted the limner to imitate ' tliem 

 as nearly as poUible in his drawing, and they are to be feen at 

 RRRRRRR. 



The fiefiiy mufcles, whicli m fg. 11, appear cut tranfverfely, 

 are, in the part lying between BC K L, four diltindl: and feparate muf- 

 cles, and, in the fpace between DEHI, fix of the fame kind, all of 

 tliem diftin^l from each other. The parts, or fpaces between them 

 in the figure, are no other than membranes, and particles of fat, 

 lying within thofe membranes. For, I never faw in fuch a mufcle as 

 is exhibited in fig. 13, NO P O, any vein, nor any detached particle 

 of fat, but every one of thefe kind of mufcles, as far as I have hither- 

 to obierved, is always enveloped in a membrane, and, if the ox is 

 a very fat one, particles of fat will be leen in the membrane. 



It fliould be remembered, that every one of thefe mufcles' 

 mull have its tendon, or terminate in a membrane which conftitutes. 

 a tendon, and not only fo, but every oblong flefliy particle, of which 

 each fuch mufcle confi Its, and which appear infig. i3,NOPO, mull 

 alfo be provided with a tendon, or terminate in a membrane as he- 

 fore mentioned, and all thefe tendons and membranes ( in ray judg- 

 ment) do, together, conftitute that part which many take only for 

 an inner fkin, wiiich inner fkin, or rather mufcular part, covering the 

 tongue all over, is defended, as it were, by a thick external Ikin : 



* The fame sjipearancc is noted by the author, when treating of the young plant ia the 

 Coifee-bean. 



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