44 Of the CALAMARY'i 



Microfcope to be compleatly formed, 

 and were fo ripe for Action, that 

 feveral exerted themfelves, before I 

 could place them upon my Object- 

 Plate : The Drawings of Plate III. 

 Plate in ^ 6 - 7- 8. 9. were taken 



jp/ e . a. 6. from thefe, to which I refer the 

 7-^-9- Pleader in the Perufal of the fub- 

 iequent Defcription. 



The outward tranfparent Cafe is 

 Cartilaginous and Elaltick : Its up- 

 per Extremity is gathered into a 

 round Head, which is in Reality 

 nothing more than the Top of the 

 Cafe involuted into itfelf, and by 

 that Means clofing the Orifice, thro* 

 which the interior Apparatus fprings 

 iH the Time of Action. 



Within this is contained a tranf- 

 parent Tube, elaftick, as it appears 

 from the Phenomena, in all Di- 

 rections, and forcing its Way where- 

 ever it finds a Paflage, which tho' 

 the Continuation of it is not equally 

 fenfible in all Parts, may be eafily 

 difcovered in a Courfe of Experi- 

 ments to inveft the Screw, Sucker, 

 Barrel, and that spongy Subftance, 



which 



