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it is united again into one, making in the skin a kind 
fr^L 2. off femilunar Hit ox' for Amen. /:ttlie lower Orifice as 
alfo above ihtCrmmmk had feveral llrong and fair 
niulcles, wliich doubtlcfs fervcd for the regulating its 
motions in fpouting out the water. Intheinfide or' the 
fifhiU below the fijjtmjthtvo, \\'Cie abundance' of holes or 
PafUU which I took for tlie Orifices of Glands, and 
Mr. Rdy does obfeive tliat if you do prefs thetn, there 
would ftart out a certain glutinous liquor : Which Mtcus 
may ferve for the lubricating the infides of the ///?///.t, as 
alio defending them from the acrimony of the lalt water, 
and may be likewife a recrement caft ofF from the bloud 
as is the fiiot in other Animals. Over the two hol'.ows of 
Vit'%^cc. tl'^^/y^-^^^i^^ft above the Crmium there lye two ^'protu- 
' ' ' berating bodies like an Ep'%lonis or Valves, which as 
Mr. Ray does likewife obftrve, ferve to fiop the Pipe that 
no water gets in there v/ithout the fiihes ^^'ill. Near this 
tliereare placed four Tags or two pair of them. The 
11 uL 2.^ fii ft II pair wliich is tlie largefi:,lyes uponthe middle of the 
irfdfy^l^,' I^ojhnm or fiiout, it hathatfirilone ^ommow^ for. trnen^ 
VD. ° then fubdividesinto two cells, each of which M ill contain 
f/i-S^n^ a large Nutmeg; they are covered on the infide ^vith a 
black skin, andfeem to be m.ade-upof agriftly fubrtance, 
formed into feveral or folds lengthways, fbmetliing 
reicmblingthe^?^ fpo^gioffm infome other Animals, and 
poiTibty may have feiretlung of the fame ufe, at leaft may 
ferve for the forming the noife they make againft ftorms 
pk-Z^rr^' and bad \^^eather.The two ot^'er or f fecond pair are placed 
higher and more to the fides of tlie Roftrum ; their cavi- 
ty is not fb large, but in it is contained a confiderable 
ii Glandule about the bignefs of a Filbird, which may fe- 
f)arate a liquor ferving to fbme of the uies before de- 
cribed. By having this membrane over it, it in part re- 
fembled the To^ftls. Mr, Ray mentioneth a third pair 
tending towards the brain, having a long but narrow 
pafTage^for the ufe as he conjectured of mielling -; but 
opening the Brain, neither of us could find either Olfac- 
tory Nerves or Procejfm iMtmjf/jrcs. This bR pair I 
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