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maceti is taken from the cavity in the head of 

 this animal, and ambergris is a concretion formed 

 in its intestines. 



To the left of this large room, and parallel 

 with it, are three others filled with skeletons of 

 the ruminating quadrupeds. In the first are those 

 of the ox, sheep, goat and antelope, the horns of 

 which are hollow and permanent ; in the second, 

 those of the stag tribe, or animals with deciduous 

 horns; and in the third, those of the dromedary, 

 camel, lama, and vicunna, which are destitute of 

 horns. 



In retracing our steps and crossing the room 

 containing the whales, we enter another occu- 

 pied by human skeletons of different ages and , 

 nations : among them we remark that of an Ita- 

 lian with one additional lumbar vertebra ; that 

 of an ancient Egyptian, prepared from a mummy, 

 on which are observed a great number of frac- 

 tures perfectly cured ; the skeleton of a Boschis- 

 man female, known in Paris by the name of the 

 Hottentot Venus, with a cast of her standing by 

 that of the celebrated dwarf of Stanislaus king 

 of Poland; and also a model in wax of the ske- 

 leton of a woman named Supiot, whose bones 

 had become so soft that they were all distorted. 

 A series of foetuses, shews the growth from the 

 fust month of conception to the birth. On the 



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