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The pipe in the Head, through which this kind of fifli draw 
their breathy and fpout out water j h'es before the brain^ and 
ends outwardly in one common hole, but inwardly its divided 
by a hony feptuM) as it were into two noftrils 5 but below a- 
gain it opens into the mouth in one hole> This lower orifice is 
ftirniflied with a ftrong SphinUevy whereby it may be fhut and 
opened at pleafurej and above this SphmUer^ the fides of the 
pipe are lined with a giandulous flc (h, which if you prefs, you 
ftiall fee ftart^out of many litcle holes or papiIJs into the cavity 
of the pipe, a certain giurinous liquor Above the noflrils is a 
ftrong valve or membrane like an Epiglottis , which ferves to 
flop the pipcj that no water get in there againft the fiflies wilu 
Within the fifiula are fix blind holes having no cut- ler • four 
trading toward the fnout 5 two above the valve that ftops the 
noftrils ; and two beneath it i two tending towards the brain.) 
having a long but narrow cavity for the ufe of fmelling^ as 1 
eonjedlurej though opening the brain I could find neither 
olfadiory nerves nor proceffus mammillares. The Eyes are fmail 
confidering thebignefs of the filh^ and fcituate at a good di- 
flance from the bafis of the brain. The Snout is long, and far- 
nifhed with very large mufcles^ to root or turn up the (and ac 
the bottom of the Sea for to find fifheSj as appears in that we 
found nothing in his fiomach but Sand-Ecles ^ which^ as was 
intimated before, lye buried in the Sand* The Brain and Ce- 
rebellum are^for the rabftance and anfraSm of them^ the fame 
with thofe of Quadrupeds , only differing in the figure^ as 
being ihorter : But what they want in length ^ they mafe up 
in breadth. They have alfo the like teguments called (Jum 
and pia-mateK Six or feven pair of nerves, befides the Opticks 
the fame ventricles; only in the medulla oblongata we obferved 
not thefe protuberances called fiates o,nA te[hs. The Skull 
(jCramum) is notfo flrong and thick^ as in Qiiadrapeds 3 but 
articulated after the fame manner to the firft Vertebra of the 
back-bone* This largeuefs of the brain^ and correfpondence 
of it to that of mauj argue this Creature to be of more than 
ordinary wit, and capacity , and make to feem lefs fabulous 
and -.S ^b!^ thofa h..^<^at ftories^ related by '^L.p.M ns^ ■ 
:>^. V : ^:- -ing Amn % By ?lin-^ the Eider ^ "^-^^' - 
eoacerning: 
