and its Dimenfions. 



The Calamary has ten Horns, or 

 Arms, difpofed at equal Diftances 

 round a ftrong circular corrugated 

 Lip, inclofing the Head and its 

 Hawk-bill, like that of a Land- 

 Tortoife, within which he with- 

 draws his Head, when he retires un- 

 der his Shell. The Bill of this Fifh 

 is a horny Subftance, both Parts of 

 which are hooked, and clafp one with- 

 in another : They are fecured from 

 Diflocation by the corrugated Lip, 

 which contrails like a Purfe round 

 them, and permits only the two 

 Points, or fomething more to emerge. 

 The A&ion of the two Parts of this 

 Bill is from Right to Left, and the 

 Opening of it is not, as one would 

 expeft, parallel, but perpendicular to 

 the Plane of the two Eyes, which 

 are on each Side of the Head at a 

 fmall Pittance below the Roots of 

 its Arms. 



The Arms are not all of equal 

 Length ; eight of them meafure fome- 

 thing more than one fourth, and the 

 two remaining equal the whole 

 Length of the Fifh. The eight (hort 

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