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* Fi|, ^^3Lve defcribeci the*^ Penes which here were very remar- 
kable, not only for their ftrudure , but number like- 
wife > there being 4 in all^ two on each fide, which lay 
fheathed in the Body chat upon firft opening ic they 
were not to be perceived^* but only the large Orifices where 
they were drawn in as a finger of a Glove may be by a 
thread faftned to the end. But having protruded them 
II F/g, by zProhs they appeared as isreprefcnted in the || Fi- 
gure. And I did obferve that toward the Ea/is^ or IR^ot , 
they were fmgle of each fide, and that here they were 
thick befet with prickleS;,whore points looked backwards, 
and were very ftiarpv and feemed^ efpecially when dry, 
like the fubftance of the5nj?/^/ of diHedg-hogi but hence 
they were divided, and did form two round bodys, of 
the bignefs of a fmall Goofe quill 5 about i of an Inch long 
of a red Colour ^ but the whole^ as protruded, was above 
an Inch long. When protruded I found they could eafily 
j be retraced, and drawn in by the help of large t Mufdes^ 
that were faftned to them and did run along under, and 
were at laft inferted at the end of the Tayle at the fetting 
onof^lie firft 5 which upon the trial was fo plain 
that we need not doubt of the ufe of them ^ and I (hall 
therefore call them ^traitores Fenum, But Charas feems 
to miftake them in Vipers ^fov the Penes themfelveS; which 
he defcribes to have their Or igine from the extremity of 
ihtTayle s as does « Baldus Angelm Abhatitis^ ^ 
drovandus zvi& oihtxs who it may be milled him in the 
account of thefe parts. Nor as to the other extream 
are they more in the right ^ which by their Pifture, and 
Defcription , they make to be altogether fingle,and cove- 
red and quick befet with Prickles like the Skin of a Porcu- 
pine. Whereas this part in /^^w too, as well as in the 
J{attle'Snake^d\w\Ats and forms two large round bodys ^ 
or two i\^in£t Penes, And this Baldm^ or rather Ca- 
mentius who made the diffeiiion for him , feems to 
g DeJ^iperanam* & facultat. cap 19, pag, mibi 60, h Aldtovandus 
de Serpent. &Pr^C9n» 
F have 
