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many others, folded into a spiral line. The os cibro. 

 sum is made up of the extremities of these; the holes 

 therein being the intervals between them. They arc 

 designed to uphold the inner tunic of the nose, which is 

 folded round about together with these laminae, that 

 by its great expansion it may receive a greater num. 

 ber of the odorant particles. For the same reason, it 

 is furnished with many small glands, which open into 

 it, and moisten it with a slimy exudication, fitted to 

 entangle and detain the subtle effluvia that touch it. 

 And not only the number, but also the length of these 

 laminae, is of great use for the strength of smelling. 

 For this purpose most beasts, which either hunt, or 

 distinguish their food by smell, have not their nose in 

 the middle of their face, like a man, but prolonged to 

 the very end. 



31. The tongue has for its basis that forked bone, 

 , called the os gutturis. It consists of various muscles in- 

 terwoven together, that it maybe fit for various kinds 

 of motion. To these are added very many small bran, 

 ches of nerves, which pass through the middle of it 

 to the outside, and being gathered into little bundles 

 constitute those papillae. which makes its surface rough 

 and uneven. Besides these, there appear also on the 

 surface of the tongue, certain pointed fibres, not un- 

 like the ends of birds claws, inclining towards the basis 

 of it, with which are interspersed innumerable salival 

 glands. And all these are in their several ways sub. 

 servient to the sense of tasting. 



It has leen generally supposed, that the tongue is 

 essentially Decessary to the formation of speech. But 

 as sure as we have been of this, it is an entire mis. 

 take. A child in Essex, some years ago, had her 

 tongue entirely cut out, by reason' of an incurable 

 canker. She was then three years old. Twenty 

 years after ? it was reported, that she was able to speak. 

 To be satisfied hereof, Mr. Benjamia Boddington, 

 Turkey merchant of Ips>vich 3 with two other cn 



