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fruits^ and fwines flefh, j^ipri autem ifli Indicia feu agrejhs 
fries I Vmbilioum in dorfo gerunt. In the notes to this 
Chapter^ the fame is confirmed of the nildhogs in Nem 
Spain. And Gomara writes the fame, of tho(e in Brajile, 
dviedus tells us of chofe in T^rr^ firma^ thcLlVmbilicumin 
medio dorfo gerunt. ^ofephm a Cofla affirms much the 
fame , Saynos animalia funt j4prifor?nia Umbilicum in 
dorfo gerentes.Jo.Faber concludes from thele, and all the 
accounts he could meet with, in the writers of the 'NatU" 
ral Hiflory of the Weji Indies, as a moft UEdoubted truthi 
Sayno effe Aprum^cui Vmbilicus non in ventre fed in dorjo 
trominet. And altho' in feme other circumftances, their 
teftimonies difagree ; yet he faith, in hoc omnia conve- 
niunt, vmbilicum circa dorji Spinam exijiere.. 
Indeed he is very liberal j and gives him, fif I maylo 
call it j along Navel'Jlr I ng too. It may be, being im- 
pofed on, by the piBure of Nardtis Ant. 'Bacchus where 
there is fometjiing very prominent^ and as I believe, was 
defigned only, to point to the places where this fuppofed 
Navel "Was leated j rather then to rcprefent any thing na* 
tural in it. But in the defcription, his words are thcfe^ 
^ fed quod maximopere admireris^ ac prceter naturae feriem 
cmtigiffe dicer e queas^ nec ullis alijs in beftijs animadvert as^ 
eji 5 quod Animal hoc prominentiam quandam in dorfo forti-' 
tumfuerity eminent em apprime d detruncati forma inteflini 
confpicuam: Et hane in dextra quidem fui parte ^ pr ope fpi- 
nam dorfi fitam^ dunes fc. verfus^ perpendicular iter Genita- 
lis Mafculini potius quam umbilici regioni^ in ventre adejje 
porcis foliti, refpondentem. In his Scholia on this, he fpends 
fome p^ges in reafoning on this fo odd a Fhcenomenom. 
But being fo much miftaken in the of the queftion; we 
ftiallnot trace him farther : but fee what others have 
thought of it. 
And our next inftance fhall be, the opinion of Falco- 
hurgius, 2i Phyfitian at Leyden j who diffedted one brought 
* vid. Jo.FabriExpofuion. in Ammal. Novo? Hifp. p. <?37. 
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