irom Bra/ile. And from J!natomiJt, we might expeft 
fomething more accurate. Indeed he denyes it to be a 
]>favel bat will have it to be a breafl, or.Mamma, I will 
give his account of it, as I meet with it m^^ Bartholine ; 
who has taken it out of Mar^ravius (which at prefent I 
have not by me) in dorji fays he) externi medietate, fve 
fuper fpinam dorji prope vertebras LumbareSy mamma ejiy 
cujus circumferentiam aureus ducatus metiebatur^ quam 
porcellis latlandis dejimatam effe^ ex glandulisfubjiratisju- 
dicabat i in eas enimvence varice, eceque fatis magn(€ infe' 
ru7itur, Papillarum in fumine nullum ufum credebat j nulla 
enim glandula fuhjicitur i necvafa fanguifera comparent pro 
laB:e generando Jufficientia. Indeed Jo. de Laet m his anno- 
tions on that Chapter in ^ Margravius^ tells us, he was 
fully informed by thofe that lived in Br a file i that the 
young pigs there, did (lick the Teats under the belly ^ and 
not that fancyed one on the bach^i He will rather havQ 
it therefore, an Vmbilicus^ as all the Natives take it to 
be. 
But the third opinion is that of v7<?.LmW,andT/^^z^^^///; 
who make it ^ Spirdculum^ by which it breaths. Habet 
(i2i\x\\\iQ) anaturafora^ien in dorfo^ quemadmodum in ca- 
ptte fuem marinum habere dixi^ quo fpirittim emittit, admits 
titqu^^ CjuU Pijo with a fliort Cenlure on it, denies that a- 
nyof t he fe offices ought to be given to this party^mA is 
more inclinable to the opinion oi'^Hernande^; who hav- 
ing difecSled it, affures us; tis owlj glanduloja quadam, ^ 
mollis pinguedo. The Colour, Ibeleive, made him call it 
pingueda^y tho really it's fubftance is wholly glandulous. 
In it [Hernande^ faith) fe recipit humor quidam aqueus, 
qui digitis exprejfus fluit. But I wonder, that having 
feen, and difleiled them he takes no notice of the fcent 
ityeilds. 
To interpofe therefore my own Conjeibure concerning 
^ TIjo. PaTh jlin. eenr. i HiO-. Me<^. 96. w Mar^ravius. lib- 7. Chap. 7. ^ Jo- Le- 
rius in Kav'inar. ni Biafil c. y> y G. Pilode India; urriLfque re Nar. 8ciVed. I, 3. 
p^.^, i Fianc. Hcrhandtz. Hili. Qaa.,ruped. Novit: Hifp. Trad. i»c. 2. p. 8. 
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