122 STRUCTURE OF THE EYE OF THE SWORDFISH. 
tached to its capsule, as to bear its weight with ease when 
suspended out of the water. On the opposite side of the 
lens there is a smaller ligament of the same kind. The 
great body of the lens, inclosed in a capsule of almost 
tendinous consistence, after remaining some weeks in spi- 
rits, splits spontaneously into concentric lamellae, and deep 
rents in the direction of its axis, and separates easily into 
coarse fibres having for the most part the same direction. 
