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logons, or correfponded with the Diviflons of the Fi- 
brous Matter in the Criftalhn Humor, and then wound it 
about with a fingle fmall Thread, which was to re- 
prefent the Fibrous Matter that conipos^'d a fmall Scale of 
the faid Humor- 
Fig, S. A B C D E F G H I K Reprefents a Globe or Orb 
of the Criftalline Humor of a Whale, whereof L is the 
Genceror Axis, and lies next to the view, where the 
Fibrous Particles arife out of the fhorteft Circumvolution 
of the oppofit part of the Globe, and the Courfe of 
which is in fome mesfure defcribed by the Letters LA. 
h G. L E. L G. and L L 
As for the Fibrous Subftance which here does firft 
Circumvolve from the Middle point or Center, viz. Q B„ 
PD. OF. NHandMK. they defcribe the fame Cir- 
cumvolution in the oppofite part of the. Sphere or Globe» 
which is here reprefented by L« 
Then I caufed the Painter to defign the faid Ball, that 
was wound about with a Thread on one fide, that you : 
may the better conceive the Circumvolution of the Fi? 
brous Matter. 
Fig. 6. RSTU reprefents the faid Ball fo well wound . 
up in the fingle Thread, that there appeared only the 
two ends of the faid Thread, and the Ball was Co wt 11 
covered that hardly any of the Leather appear'd. 
The Center or Axis, which in Fig. 5. is defcrib'd by 
L5 where the Fibrous Matter, proceeding five feveraL 
ways, docs Circumvolve, as A L C. CLE. E L G. and 
GL I, we mufl fuppofe to be reprefented in this Figure- 
by K and T. 
In Figure we have defcrib'd five other, but (liorrer 
Circumvolutions of the Fribrous Sabftsnce, as is before 
faid, by the Letters M N O P Q_5 but when we had 
caufed Fig. 6. to be defign d, there appear'd but three of 
the laft mentioned Circumvolutions, as in the Letters 
WXY. 
And: 
