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E^traulof 4 Letter fer^t from CemudL to Sion.S^votti^ the 
Venecian Kefidenp here^ and bj him cmmunkated to tin 
Honourable Mr. Boy ! e. 
ON Sr. Jofephs day, upon the Momtains call'd 
L^/^^^e*/ there fell upon the v\hue Snow, that was 
there already, a great quantity of redj or if you pleafe of 
bloody Show* From which, being fqueezed ^ there came a 
water of the fame colour. Of this there are here many Eye 
Witneffes, 
Av[2XQn\\c^\Obfervations of the Structure of the Nofe : madt 
by Monf duVernay. Taken om of the Journal des Sea- 
Tans. 
AN account is here given of a Book entitled, PhilofofhtA 
VetHs ^ Nova. The Learned Author whereof hath 
coUedled aad compofed together into one Sjfiem a great 
number of excellent Obfer vat ions; amongfl the reft of v^hich, 
here briefly mention'd, we have this, no where elfe publiflied 
that I know of, fet down at large, as follows. 
Of the Strudureof theNofe, Monf. duVerniij dbkr^ts^ 
That the cavities hereof are fill'd with many Cartilaginous 
Lamines diftindt one fi^om^ another : every Lamine being 
divided into many others^ all folded almoft into a fpiralline. 
That the Or Grtbrofum is made upof the extremities of thefe 
Lamines , which butt upon the Root of the Nofe ; the 
holes wherewith it is pierced , being the intervals between 
the Lamines. 
They are defigned to uphold the imtx tunick of the Nofe* 
Which Ttf/^/V^, being a principal O/g^;^ of Sw^Z^/V/^, hath 
received from Nature a very great expanfion : for the com- 
modious placing whereof, Nature huh folded it round about 
together with thefe Laminos \ that by this induftrious M<?- 
chanifm^ Ihe may employ ali its length in a very little 
room. 
This lunick is fili*d with an innumerable company of 
fmall 'Rays\ fo many branches of Arteries and Veins :, and 
efpecially Ner^ves ; by which it hath a moft exquifite fenfe. 
Yet becaufe the particles of Odorant bodies are fo fubtil^ 
that rhey can but very foftly glance upon the Organ ; Na- 
ture hath therefore provided by this great expanfion , that 
there 
