Body and Inteftitie's. 3 



condenfes into a hard brittle Sub- 

 fiance refembling Charcoal, and to 

 be diffolved at Pleafure by W ater. 



At the Root of this Vefiel, exa- pi ate n. 

 mining fome Calamaries about the E- £. 

 middle of December* I obferved for the 

 firft Time two oval Spots about one 

 fourth of an Inch in Diameter, which 

 feemed to be Membranes replete 

 with a glutinous Subftance contain- 

 ing the Animal's Spawn : This Spawn 

 appeared to the naked Eye to be 

 fmall round Specks of a fine crimfon 

 Colour, but, when viewed in the 

 Microfcope, differed very much from 

 each other both in Size and Shape* 

 a Particular not as yet obferved, I 

 believe, in the Spawn of other Fifh, 

 the Ova of which are perfectly fimi- 

 lar. They were all Oblong, but 

 fome of them were more than three 

 Times the Length of others, 2nd 

 feemed to project at one of their 

 Extremities a Confufion of Radii, or 

 the firft Lineaments of Arms, as if 

 they tended to a flume the Shape of 

 the Parent Calamary : The Appear- 

 ance however was fo indiftinct, that 

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