388 ACCOUNT OF A BELUGA 



branch in the cow and the deer, two species which, 

 like this animal, have also four stomachs. The ra- 

 mifications of this branch, and the other two of 

 the general division, were not traced far into the 

 lungs, but traced at the same time until they di- 

 minished to less than the eighth of an inch in dia- 

 meter ; but we should certainly have traced them 

 farther had we been only aware of a circumstance 

 which we learned afterwards, that the rings of 

 which they are formed are complete, and entirely 

 osseous. The lungs in which they terminated were 

 in two lobes, a right and a left, without any subdi- 

 visions. 



The Head, Vertebral Column, and Ribs of the 

 Skeleton, which have been preserved. 



The head, measuring along the base from the 

 foramen magnum, which is situated between the 

 inial and basilar aspect of the cranium, is, to the 

 farther extremity of the jaws, twenty-one inches; the 

 breadth of the upper jaw from right to left, at the 

 spiracula, eleven inches ; at its farther extremity, 

 two and a half. Its depth from the facial plane 

 to the palate, three inches at the spiracula ; at 

 its farther extremity, scarcely one inch. The low- 

 er jaw is without a ramus or coronoid process, 

 very thin from right to left, across the alveolar pro- 



