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from whence I refer the Reader to Plate III. 



the Drawing both of it, and that of 



the Cuttle-jijh^ which when viewed Fig. 2. 



in the Microfcope will be found to 



differ from it confiderably in the 



Shape, and Order of its minute 



Parts. 



A curious Arrangement of nine 

 Rows of Teeth invefts in a man- 

 ner the whole Expanfion on one fide 

 of a thin tranfparent Membrane, 

 to which they adhere. The Area 

 of this Membrane, tho' it be fo 

 minute in a Calamary of the largeft 

 Size as not to exceed half an Inch in 

 Length, and one Tenth of an Inch 

 in Breadth, yet affords a fufficicnt 

 Space to contain without Confufi- 

 on five hundred and four Teeth of 

 feveral Shapes, each Row being 

 cornpofed of fifty fix". 



By Comparifon with a fmall Por- 

 tion of a human Hair &th of an Inch 

 in Length, which I placed upon the 

 Objedt in the Interface between 

 two Rows of Teeth, the Length of 

 the longed Tooth appeared in the 

 Microfcope not to exceed one Thirti- 

 eth 



