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ftroriger and courfer than the reft, mcafured Three In- 
ches ; being White towards the Ends; though the Mexi- 
can H'tftory faith the contrary. ?ilo longo (0 can^ido, 
fed etna extrerm fufco @* mgro, (aith Hermandtz (c). 
Joh. Eufeh, f^ieremlergim (e/J), in his Figure f which is 
much to be preferred before the others) reprefents him 
very Shocky, and, as it were, with Curled Hair, If 
what Margrave tells us be true, his Subjefl: was different 
from ours; Vili autem Capitis (faith he {a ) Colli infer i-^ 
lis cum fine Ventri$ Cauds inferius prope exortum, fmt 
flavi Jecundum longitudtnem autem Capitis^ per Oculos & 
medium Capitis tendit ampla nigra Jiria. But die Colour 
of the Fur may yary in different SLibje(9:s. 
But w^e will have now done with the Outward Parts, 
to proceed to the Inward: But that u e muft nrft of all 
take Notice of that moft remarkable Part, that no other 
Species of Animals enjoys, as I know of, but this ,• that 
is neither Inward^ nor Outward^ but a Medium between 
both ; I mean that admirable contrived Pouch or Marfu 
pium that it has in the hinder Belly. 
For at the Bottom of the Belly^ in the middle, be- 
tween the Two Bibdei'-Legs, we obferved a Slit \\ ox II Tab. I. 
Aperture^ moderately extended about Two Inches long ; ^'i- 2. and 
capable of a larger Extenfion by dilating it with ones^'^* 
' Fingers, even when it is alive. John Stadias (Ji) (aichj 
in alvo fiffuram hahet ad dimidice Spithamos Ungitudi- 
nem : Or, as 'tis reodred by Gefner (p) ad fex digitos fe- 
re fiiffm : Poffibly 'cis a iittje over ftretcht however, 
it can fo exa(9:ly clofe and centraft it, that the Eye does 
not rtadily difcover it, till dilated by the Fingers. Bur- 
" f(t OS it a *clauditur^ ut non appareat, ntfi duohus digit is 
*' ah invicim difiendatur^ faith Margrave {a). Tanta ce- 
qualitate & vi, ut coaluiffe cutim omnino putes^ faith the 
" Mexican Hiftory (c). 
This 
