Phocjcnaj or the Anatomy of a forpefs. 
it may be, that by its equal contraftion of thtSckmis to 
which 'tis faftened, it renders the Ball of the Eye more 
or lefsfpherical,aiidl6 fitter for vifion. lhQTu;ma file- 
rotkaw^-S much more dcnfe and hard than in other Ani- 
mals, The Choroides was party-coloured, a mixture of 
Blue and Green, wliich is not in the Porcus urrejiris. 
Th^ Pupil was Oral which is not fb common in other 
fiflies. ThQ Cry ftalline Humor \vdiSO^ a Spherical figure, 
but feemed to be a little more convex in tlie anterior- 
than pofterior parr. The Opt/ck Akrve w^s not inferred^ 
lb laterally as in Qiiadrupeds, but rather in Jxe Ocul/. 
The Br am in this fifli was large, it weighed ;xvi I and 
refembled much' more that of Quadrupeds than fiflies. 
Its figure was fbmewhat iliort, but what it w^anted in 
length, it had in breadth. Tlie Cerebrum .was fepa rated 
from the Ctrebellnm by an os trianguUre^ as in Dogs and 
Ibme other Animals. The Brain was divided into two^ 
Hemifpheres, though RondeUtms does lay that in a Dol- 
phin 'tis not divided into ^fecV/r/^^^ & [inijlrum. It had its 
Anfracitis, but not lb deep as in fome. Itsfurface was 
curioufly ramified with bloud-vedels. There M^ere the 
finu^s and iurA and pia Mattr^ the fithfimtia Corticdis 
Medulkrfs ; Nbr in any tiling was it more different froiii 
the ufual make and conformation of it in other Ani- 
ma Is than in thedefeftof the Olfaftory Nerves and Pro-^ 
celjiis MamilUrts^ which is likev\'iic taken notice of by 
Mr. /^^y.But for all tills (y) /io^^s^c'/i///^^ thinks they fmell, 
where he feith, In Delphinis nec fordmtn (Narium ) mc 
mtattts uUus efty tthm-fi fi.gmffiml odor em ur^ at t eft is eft 
Ariftot. (Hift. Anim, c. 8.) & ExperientU if fa, confir- 
mat. The Optick Nerves were large, and did (eem to be 
united as in men, and not fo plainly to decuffate each 
cther'asisufualin fomefiflies. We obfervedthe Nervi 
Ocnlorum motor ii^ Patheticiy d^c, in all about eight or nine 
Pair. The InfundihdHm and CilmdnU PituitmA were 
(y ) RoM. deTifcl 3- c^P- 8. f.57- 
very 
