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SM..HS of (AW and /->////;/, the pourtraicts in 



SOUK- ancient c d in this figure, aa 



will appear in some thereof in <Y.v/,<r, others in 



(in/f:(,i\, and Lavitm* Hulmti in his description 



:om .//// >w unto Rudolphus the 



ml. Notwithstanding, to speak strictly, in 

 their natural ligurc they are strcight, nor have 

 their spine con vexed, or more considerably em- 

 bowed than Shark-. PoffXMttS, \\'n.des, and other 

 cetaecoi:-. an::i .:<!>. ;is \\//igcr plainly artirmeth : 

 Corpus httbet nan magi* curciun (juum rdiqm pisce*. 

 -\^ <H ,:.:: eiKjuirv infonnetli; and as, unto .such 

 as have not had the opportunity to behold them, 

 their proper pouitraicts will discover in Rondele- 

 thts, (rfxncr. and .Udnxundus. And as indeed is 

 dedncible from pictures themselves; lor though 

 they he drawn rcpandous, or convcxcdly crooked, 

 in one piece, yet the Dolphin that carricth Arion 



Micavonsly inverted, and hath its spine de- 



-ed in another. And answerably hereunto 

 we may behold them differently bowed in medals, 

 and the Dolphins of 7ir//v/.v and ///////.v do make 

 another flexure from those of Commodus and 

 Agripjm. And therefore what is delivered of their 

 incurvit\ must either be taken emphatically, that 



ot really, but in appearance; \\hichhappeneth 

 when they leap above water, and suddenly shoot 

 down again ; which is a fallacy in vision, whereby 

 streight bodies in a sudden motion protruded ob- 

 liquely downward, appear unto the eye crooked; 

 and this is the constructor founts: or, if it 



be taken really, it must not be universally and 



