A N 



ACCOUNT 



Of Some 



New Microfcopical Difcoveries, 



C H A P. I. 



Of the Calamary, and its natural 

 Difnenfions, 



Pff-^yHB Calamary differs but D1 _ 



m&I . _ _ . r , Plate I. 



in few Particulars trom the F/ - g u 

 Cuttle-fifo and Pourcontrel, 

 - or Sea- Polype, and is, as 

 they are, a Species of Ink-fjh. That 

 white friable opake Part, common- 

 ly known and called the Bone 

 of the Cuttle-fijh y is fupplied in the 

 Calamary by a thin tranfparent elaf- 

 tick Su'bftance like Ifinglafs. Its 

 Surface, if expanded, is a long Ova!, 

 but bent, as it is, the whole Length 

 of its longer Axis, and lodged im- 

 C mediately 



