Phocxna,or the Jnutomy of afor^efs* 
didnottake notice of my felf, though I do riot deny but 
that they may be there. 
Rondektius denies that fifhes have Eye-Udsj where he 
laithj (x) Palfebris vtro omms (^Jc. Pifcts) carent^ qnod 
commode nichre m Aqua non pojfu/^tj fed duriores Oculi 
facHy »e fitcile ab Af ix falftdrftey qu^ arrodit^ UderenfHr. 
ATi6.c\k\vh.txty Palpebrarum defectum Qorma duritie penfx- 
vit NAturcty qtm undiq\ Cculum ambtt^ non ex adverjo Pa- 
ptlU tmium utin homimbus. Which though true in le- 
veral fillies, yet holds not good in this, for here we muft 
-grant Palptbra or Eyc-hds. Their aperture was but 
Irnall, and on the infides of the upper Eye-hd we obler- 
vcd Sten^\ dnchs^s very fair, and did put in Briflles into 
leveral of them, that did run into the GlmdnU innomi- 
from whence they did arife, whieh Gland was very 
.large. '[Jonfion out oiX nrd.m affirms that a Porpefs Ibme- 
times weeps ; if there be a Paffion, there Wiints not mat- 
ter here for tears. However this humour may ferve for 
the wafhingo J the Brine of the Sea water from fretting 
the Eye, which in this hot Animal perhaps may be ten- 
derer than in other fiflxs, which have for this uie a pro- 
per Tunicle, which is a continuation of the Cnt/^ that co- 
vers the C ornea and is tranfparent, as is plain in M^hitm^s^ 
TheCV^/^of the" Eye was not foperfedor compo- 
fed of bones as in other Animals, but at the low^er part 
'it had only a very tliin fmallbone. The Bulk of the Eye 
in proportion to the body was but final}, being not fb 
big as in a Sheep. It had all the Mufclcs very mir as in 
a Man, and like wife the Mtifmln^ Jttnmus orfffpenforius 
that is proper to Brutes, and which didinclofe the Optick 
Nerve, iheufe of tliis in Brutes that are prono Qapite^' 
is thought to be, to fufpend the Bulk of the Eye that it 
receives^ no injury from the declivity of the head ; but 
:^fciiere being not that danger here,Nature tliat does nothing 
in vain, muft have fome odier intendments, and probably 
