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pouch moft authors place the Mamm^^ or teats, but Dr. Tyfon 
could find none in this place, nor even on the outward liin, 
as is ufual in other multiparous animals ; pofltbly this fubjcft 
never had a litter, fo for want of drawing, the teats might be 
lefs. To as to efcape notice 5 the male alfo, if we may believe 
IPz/J?, has fuch another purfe under his belly, and takes his 
turn to carry the young, in order to eafe the female: This 
contrivance of nature, for fecuring the young from any danger, 
till they are able to (hift for themfelves, is not to be parallel'd 
in any fpecics of animals, at leaft of the quadruped kind, be- 
iides: In the ^Ihora^ of the 'PoJJim^ the lungs had three lobes 
on one fide, and only one on the other, but this was as 
large as the other three j they were foft and fpungy, eafily 
dilated, and large in proportion to the animal : The heart was 
included in a '^Pericardium^ as ufual, but larger, in refpefl of 
the bulk of the animal, than is common; nor was its cone fo 
/harp, but rather more obtufe^ it had two auricles and two 
ventricles : About the throat there were large Glandulce Max- 
illares'^ the tongue was little more than 5 inches long, and 
above | of an inch broad, it was rough with protuberances, 
whofe points looked inwards ; the voice, or noifc it made, was 
a little growling: The Abdomen^ or belly, was divided from 
the 'Thorax^ or brcaft, by a large, ftrong, fle/hy diaphragm; 
for the compafs of the l^horax in this place was very great and 
large, which might be rendred fo the more, bccaufe the 
animal often hangs by its tail, whereby the Vifcera of the 
Abdomen muft prcfs upon it: The ventricle, or ftomacb, re- 
femblcd a little the figure of a half-moon 3 but the two orifices 
of the Gula and Pylorus were placed fo near each other, that 
they feemed to touch or meet; and when the ftomach was 
opened, there was only a very (lender Iftbmus^ or wall, that 
parted them ; thefe orifices were inferted almoft in the middle 
of the upper part, but more inclining towards that which 
refpe6ts the T>uode>ium ; the ftomach appeared but fmall, being 
much conrrafled, for the animal had not eaten any thing for 
fomc days; it meafured about three inches and a half in length, 
and about two inches in depth: The Gula^ which conveys the 
food into the ftomach, confifted of ftrong mufcular fibres, and 
was about nine inches in length; the Pylorus feemed-to have 
its pafTage free and open, without that annular conftriflion, or 
valve, as in molt other animals, tho' there was here obferved a 
larger body of mufcular fibres than in other inteftines: There 
was nothing contained in the ftomach, but a body of clotted 
hair. 
