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the Musk- Deer ^ that both have their Scent- Bags placed 
in the Belly ^ and they have an Aperture there ; yet the 
grand Vfe of the Pouch oi tliQ Pojfum is very different, 
as we have alreadj' ieen. 
Having therefore mentioned the Glandulous Coat of 
the Marfupium ( on whole Account it may be reckoned 
as a Scent-Bag) I muft here take notice that it had like- 
wife a Mufcular Coat, befides tliofe feveral other Mujcles 
beftowed upon it, which We have obferved already, 
that gave it Motion, ft hid likewiie a Fafcular Coat 
too, being plentifully irrigated with efpe- 
cially by Two large Branches that came ixom the upper 
part of the ihorax, aod might be reckoned iho. Mamma- 
ria, as they are fliled in other Anima's. This Pouch 
wa*s faitened by feveral Membranes to the Muicles of the 
Aldomen and the Skin ; but fo as I could feparate it for 
the moil pan, with my Fingers. 
But here I find, in this Marfupium or Pouch, ,thty 
place the Mammce or Teats ; and they tell very odd Sto- 
ries about it ; I will only relate what they (ay of it, and 
what I at prefent obferved, or rather, did not obferve. 
Job. Vetrm Maffeim (js) makes this Pouch, not fingle, 
hvil double, he places the Mamma and the Yoi^ng 
Ones to be fo fixt to them, as if they almofl: grew there. 
ISud autem mirum in Cerigontlm , ex ejus aho dua depen* 
dent leluti Mantic£, in iis caiulos circumfert, & quidem 
adet pertinaciter fuo quernci^ Vleri affixes^ ut a per pet uo 
fuilu non avellantur. antequam ad poftum ipft per Je pro- 
gredi valeant. And much rhe fame has Cajp. Bar/^us i^fj 
Cer 'tgones (^faith he) Vulpis magnitudine, tnjolito fpetia* 
culo alvum ojtentant,, e qua dune veluti Mantica dependent , 
quihus catulos gefiant, tsim vaUdoJuitu Vherilm adhceren- 
tes ut non aniea demittunt, qu}m adultiores ad palulum 
ipfiexcurrere vakant, GuL Ftfo (^) out dees them loth ; 
tor he makes them not only Nouriflied, but Formed 
here: 
