obferv'd In Jamaica \ and on (ettlng it anS the Foffil 
together J and comparing them wmi mourn or the 
fame Tongues in pieces which I law in Mr. Charle- 
tonsy mofi ufeful and admirable Coiledion of Naturai 
Curiofities ; we found a perfed agreement of the Tongue 
that was dag up in Mary-Land^ and that taken from 
the Filli in our Coliedions. 
It was the Opinion of fome, that thefe Bones were 
the pieces of a petrified Muffirome, the L^oielte of 
which this Foffii in fome manner refembrd ,* but ro de- 
monftrate what they were, I had leave of Mr. Charie^ 
ton and Dr. Rohinfon, to fliew them at a Meeting of the 
Moyal Society^ and to take their Figures that they might 
be grav'd, together with the whole Tongue! had my 
felf. This is done in the Plate belonging to this Traa- 
zGdon : where 
Fig. I. Is the whole Tongue of a fiat Fifh akin to 
the Thornback, call'd P^ftinaca Marina^ &c. It is 
made up of many Bones ( about Nineteen in this } 
which are each of them crooked , their Cvvo fides 
making an obtufe Angle, fuch as the fides of the under 
mandible of a Man does ; the uppermoft fides of thefe fe- 
verai Bones have Furrowes and peices (landing together 
after the manner of the Teeth of a fliort fmall tooth'd 
ComU the extant ends of which anfwer the like parts 
in the Bones of the upper Jaw of this Fi(h,between which 
and this Tongue the Food of this Fifh is to be cut, torn, 
or ground to pieces. One inftance of the many admira- 
ble contrivances of the Wife Creator, in providing all 
Creatures with Organs proper to their feveral rie- 
ceffities. 
Fig. z. Is the under fide of the fame divided into 
feveral pieces alfo, but having no Furrows or Teeth, 
asthofe of the upperfide have. 
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