beenobfcrvcd fierctoforej anJ thofe likewifc, who tbink tliat thefc new ObferVatlons of 
the Mufclcsare unct'SL-ain ; concluding this Subjefr with an ^ niimevationof the parucularsj 
yet remaining to be fearchM into, in the HiftoVy pf the Mufcles. 
To all thcfe things he adds Two Narrative* i One of a ililTeded H?ad of a Sharfic 
which he calls Canis Car.charia', where; lie delivers matiy curious Obfervations of the 
Skin, Eye, optick Nerves, Ocular lilurcles, exceedingfrtiainefs , of tiie' Brain, as alfo 
of the Mouth, and ftrange Tcetfa of this Fifti 5 exainming withal, whether thc.OhJfO" 
pifr^e bethe Teeth of this Creature, or .yfonex produced by the Earth ; in wliicb contro- 
vei fie he takes their part, who maintain that thofe and divers other fubftinces, found in- 
tlie Earth, arc parts of the Bodies of Animals, and endeavours to prove, that luch forts of 
Earth may be the fed iments of water, and fiich Bodies, the parts of Animals carried down 
togeiher, with thofe fedimcnts, afld in progrefs of time reduced to a flony hardnefs. * 
*■ This Subje^ Mr. Hook hath alfo difcoutfsi of at large in feveral of his public fi 
te^uHSy founded by Sir John Cutlet i^hifh Leiiures he read about I'm years 
fince in Grefliani Gollcdge, in the prefenci'of m^/iy Learned and Curiaus perfonsi 
which alfg had been long fince made publicist ' had, mt^ eiher indijpen fable affairs 
hindredhimfrom.taJiingcare of the Prejs : yfiheve he^hath not. only Jhevon the 
Origin of thefe Gloflbpetrac&wt of all ether curioujly figurd stones and Minerals, 
together with that of Mountains, La\eSi Jfiandsy &c. though from a fomcxfihat di f 
fcring Hypothefis, of whieh the enrious^ mayjhortiy receive a further Account » 
The o*/jer Narrative is of a Female 'P«^-F/j2?,difredcdalfo'byW^ where do oc- 
curnolcfs remarkable obfervations, than in the former, both of the parts in the Head, and 
of thofe in the Body ; as touching the fmall weight of the Brain of this Fifh,. compared to 
the weight of its Body j feveral liihes found in the Stomach, untouched by any 
Teeth; the ^/meyj, the Ovariunt^md OviduBuSi where he digreflfes, to (hew, Mu- 
lierum tefieseffe Ovario andoges, and refers, for further proof of this to his intended 
iTreatife, which is to give an account de partium Genitalium Jnalogia. 
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ERRATA. ; 
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^x/7rf/> Multiplication, there was ufed p^g. SyiXs.j, the mar of plus or 
addition ^ which yet 'tis thought could hardly occafion any mifiake in the Intel- 
ilgem Readers^ who might eafily fee the meaning of the' Author by the lines 8, 
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