alfo of it felf, for many houres after it is - cut into quarters* and 
.the very joynts pt the Bones of the Shoulders 4nd Legs ( fa 
fwering om omo-glate and thigh, yet within the Shell ) have 
their motion 5 and even though you prick only the Fat of it. But 
if you place thefe parts of the tortoife in the Sun, they prefently 
die. The Legs die as foon^ in a manner, as cut off, 
■ ; 7. The Eggs of Crocodils and Alligators are little bigger then 
i Tuiiy's. Tthought to bring one xoErtgland) hut it was loft. 
I never broke any to fee the Yolk and White $ but the Shell is 
as firme and like in fliape to a Turky's, but not fported. I in- 
quired into the S tone in the Stomach of a Cayman or Crocodile^ 
and I found by the inquiry of a very obfaving Gentleman there, 
that they were nothing but feveral Stones, which/that; Creature 
fwallows for digeftion. He took out of one a piece of a Rock as 
big as his head: out of others he had taken 16 or 20 leflfer, . 
None regards them much there, whatever Monardes relateth. 
8. I could not hear of any Stones found in the Gall of the 
Hogs there 5 but 'tis ufual to find little Stones in their Bladder 
of feveral fizes, but the fhapes of them ( none weighing a fa u- 
pie) were angular, and pointed with five angles. 
p. De Laet is in the" right as to his defcription of the Manati- 
Stone 5 into the nature of which Fifli 1 would willingly have 
made Inquiries, had I had health to goe, where they are catched. 
But he is out in his Laps T uberorum. For though a Tibnron or 
Sharke be all one, and differ from a Manati or Sea-Cow $ yet, by 
his leave, though that fame be a kind of friable calx, when it is 
brought hither 5 yet when 'tis firft taken out, it is not fo, but a 
white fubftance near approaching to the nature of any Brain,and 
encompaffed in a Getty tranfparent. The Gelly dries all away, as 
it is expos'd to the Sun $ and the white fubftance dries into the 
body, he fpeaks of. If my memory faile me not extreamly , it 
is taken out of two places over each eye $ and both being ufual- 
ly by Seamen put into the fame paper together, to dry, pafsfor 
one. That creature hath no bone in his back P as vaft as his 
ftrength is 5 onelyin his Head there are bones. His Jawesare 
Griftles 5 and he hath rowes of teeth, which are bones like Lsn- 
cets^and moveable in him,to ere&^or lay flat $ and multiply to ^ 
or 4j w% (perhaps more) ashegrowes in years. His bad£- 
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