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Figure the firft reprefents the Ancient Lyra oxTejudoy2ix\u 
the Father tdls us he copied this Figure ( which I have 
expreft in fomewhat a larger fize, that it might tiie better 
agree with the proportion of the annext Scheme) from the 
Sculpture of an Antique Gemme that bolong d to one Jac&- 
buf Gaffarellm A A ^twth^'^x^^ Lucian the [kyvjivir^ or 
Brachia of Nkander^ made of the Horns of fome Beaft B the 
or Jugum^ in which were fattened the y^Xctfj^oi CLivl 
Pegs that raifed or depreft c. c. the or Strings, which 
were fixt at their t'other end to D the fj{^yi%v Hemfp&ermm 
or Belly* Of the Lyre of this part of the Inftrument the good 
Father not having, I fuppofe, well confider d, or throughly 
inquired into the matter, fays, that it feem'd r^/?/^^:/?^^ D^>r- 
fnm Ventrem feu Tejiam r€prefentare ^ whereas 'tis plain 'twas 
more than a refemblance, and was really defigned to exprefs 
the thing itfelf 5 as appears by the fecond Figure of an in- 
tire Teflndo Aqmtica or rather Fluviaiiln^ as Ckero calls it (in 
his Natnra De^rum ) taken from Johnftoms de Animdibus as 
delineatetlin his eightieth Table de ^adruptdibm. 
Whoever compares thefe two Figures, tho but little con- 
verfantin thenaturalHiftory of Animals, and will but make 
allowances for their different pofture, one being reprefented 
full and in a flat pofture, whilft only half of the t'other 
appears, becaufe 'tis (hewn fide ways, will foon be con vinc'd 
of this truth. 
For if we obferve how the Belly of Merfennus his Anti- 
entv Lyn^ markt D.' agrees nicely ' in Figure and Shape with 
the Back or Shell of johnjicnus his Tefiudo Aquatka^ markt 
E» how they are both curioufly teffclated and checker'd into 
Areas or Scales F. F. F. F. F. F, of fomewhat a Square Figure, 
and each of thefe Scales again in both fo neatly wrought 
about their edges with a line running parallel to their Mar^ 
gins g.g. g.g-g. g. and how the Shell of the Lyre, as that 
of the Tortoife, terminates in a narrow Limb or Verge, cut 
into fmaller Scales h. h. h. h. h. h. iacompaffing the whole 5 
whoever, I fay, remarks tliis accurate agreement of the two 
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