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nefs. They lie three deep upon the body, every part be- 
ing covered with 3 fcales lucceflively, tho not above I 
part of a fcale dilcover it felf to the Eye, the other | parts 
being hid by the other fcales. As Fig. M. where the pare 
expoled to view is marked 2, 3, 4. the reft is covered by 
other fcales. The point 3 is not always fo fliarp as I have 
here made it, but it being like the Original,which feem'd 
a perfed fcale, I would not alter it. 
The kales of Fifhes alfo appear but in part to the Eye, 
but it is very obfervable tho fifhes never change their 
fcales ; yet men do often. Particularly I inftauce in my 
fell" at this time, being the firftoi September, That the 
fcales came off me not by one and one, but 1000 in a 
Clufter. When I pluck off a fcale from my body which 
fticksfaft, and perhaps is but newly grown, there comes 
blood after it, or at leaft there remains a red fpot, 
I took off the skin from a fear in my Arm, caufed by 
blood-letting 2/ j^ears fince, and found the fcales to have 
the fhape of L. 
Thro many of the a forefaid fcales, there run tranfpa- 
rent lines, in an odd manner, as at M. and thefe lines 
are fometimes ftuckwith round Balls, of thebignefsof 
I a blood-globule, as may be feen in the fame Figure. 
Thefe lines, I bel:eve are caufed by the fweat of the bo- 
dy, bringing with it fome grofs fubftances which adhere 
to the fcales ; the Globules alfo may either come whole 
out of the body, or elfe be made afterwards out of the 
matter which is evaporated. 
It's eafy to conceive how a Loufe, Flea, or other in- 
fed may thruft his fting or fnout into the skin, for they 
need not do it thro the fcales, but between the Plates or 
Mailes. 
? From hence alfo may be gathered , that there are 
no pores4n the Ciiticula\ for the conx^eying out of 
fweat , becatife that may owze oitt from between the 
fcales, tho they ftick never fo clofe together , without 
fuppofing 
