Body and Inteftines. 



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CHAP. IV. 



The Body and Inteftines. 



TH E Body of this Fifh is a cartila- 

 ginous Cafe, furniftied with two ^ lat ^ IL 

 Fins, within which the Inteftines are 

 inclofed, adhering to the upper Part of 

 it, between a fine tranfparent Mem- Plate II. 

 branein the Nature of a Mefentery,and L ' L ' 

 that rigid, thin, tranfparent Cartilage 

 refembling Ifinglafs, defcribed in 

 the firft Chapter. The Reprefenta- 

 tion of the Reverfe of the Animal, 

 with its Cafe ripped open and ex- 

 panded, will convey a better Idea of Plate II, 

 what I would exprefs, than I can 

 poffibly do in Words. 



Immediately below the Head, 

 (which appears of an oval Shape, Plate in, 

 when extracted out of the corrugated Fig ' 5 * 

 Lip, that inclofes it and its whole 

 Apparatus) is a Dad; or Channel, 

 v open like a Tunnel at both Extre- plate ll> ( 

 mities for the Conveyance of the 

 black Liquor, with which the Cala- 

 mary difcolours the Water, in a View 

 I believe of preventing its Prey from 

 D e leaping. 



