Phocxnaj or the Jmtomy of a forpefs. 4 j 
There remains the Ofieo/o^y^ or to give an account of 
the Bones and 6Vf/£/(?;2 of this fifli^ancfin general I ftall 
obferve of them, that as the Mufcles and moil of the F:fc€- 
7-4 very much imitated the ftrufture of thofe of Quadru- 
peds, lb likewife the Bones here came very near them, as 
to their fbUdity , colour and ftrufture, and in all excepting 
what differences the necclEty of the figure of this fifli 
occafioned. I fhall begin with tliofe of the Head, where 
I fhall take notice of the Cramum^ the Rojtrum and lower 
Jaw or M4Jc/7/^. For where (w) Rondt'ktms faith, a 
Phoctna has Jio Rojlnm^ it mull beunderftoodof its ap- 
earing fo whil'ft the fiefh and fat is on; whofe great 
ulk does render it obtufe and curt : but when 'tis ta- 
• ken ofFit appears othexwite ; for then the upper Jaw or 
Roftrum^vom the Cranium to its Extremity is fix inches, 
long, but in a Dolphin much longer. At the beginning 
rah. 2. of this bone juft below the Cranium is the FtftuU or ^ A^^- 
vii^x, ^-^ve/, which as is related before was divided bv an offeous 
'/t/»f//;%2 into two Cavities. Tlie fiftiiU was formed pait- 
ly by that horn Columl^u^ calls the Fomer^ which arifing 
from the Palate does fend a thin Lcimtnx up the Cranium^ 
and is continued on the os frontis to the great Protube- 
t ranee in the middle tliere, foi ming three t protuberances 
on the OS froMis dhov^tht ffiula. The other part Of the 
ffiuU is formed by two bones, pretty large at their bafis '* 
and rifingahovfe the iiirfaceof the Rofirtm^ and fending 
down two li Pyramidal procefTes about two inches long, 
between the inward bones of the Rofinm. For the Ro- 
* ftriim was compofed of four Bones, the two ^' outward- 
mofl: were a continuation of thQfe of the Cranmm ha- 
ving two procefTes, the firfl that con:ipofed part of the 
115 li OS IZ^ygommcum^ and another about t\^t) inches lower; 
then it grew narrower, not being almofl: half the breadth 
as it was before. To be too nice and fcrupulous in the 
defcription of all the bones here might feem tedious and 
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