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not more than thofe of a fmall one ^ nay, even in a Calf, 
I don't think that the Fibres are fewer in number, but 
only that they encreafe in bignefs. 
A certain Labourer prefented me with the Chriftaline 
Hwmour of a Whale's Eye, which he caird the Eye of 
that Fifti, and told me, that one of his Neighbours lately 
return d from the \Vhale-fi(hing, had brought it home 
with him. 
After which, the Heer Frederic Wolfert van Overfchie^hy 
the interefl he had in one of the Commanders of a Green- 
land Ship lately return'd from the faid Fifhing, procured 
me two of the Humor Criflaltnui of the fame Fifh, one 
was of a great, and the other of a fmall Whale, fuppofing 
that I flbould be glad to make fome remarks on the faid 
Humort. 
Of thefetwo Criftalinc Humors I dificfted the fmalleft, 
and kept the largeft entire. 
Tab. I. Fig. i. A B. Reprefents the bignefs of the faid 
Criftaline Humour when it came into my hands, tho I be- 
lieve it was fomething larger when it was taken out of 
the Whales Eye 5 for I have obferv'd, that when I have 
taken the Criftaline Humor out of the Cod's Eye, and laid 
k never fo gently down, by reafon of its foftnefs, fome 
of its fubftance fell from it, the which having taken and 
view'd with my Glafles, I could ftill difcover in it the 
Fibrous Matter of which it confifted 5 how much mor« 
then muft fuch a Humor of the Whales Eye diminilh, 
by being preferved in Saw-duft, in order to keep it ftiff 
and faard. 
The reafon why fome of the Sea-faring People take 
fuch pains to bring home with 'em the Criftaline Humor 
of a Whale's Eye is^ to ftiow it as a Wonder that fo Great 
an Animal fhould have fo fmall an Eye 5 for they miftake 
that Humor for the whole Eye. 
In examining the faid Criftaline Humor it appear'd to 
me, that the Fibrous Matter or Particles whereof it is 
com- 
