^6 ?hocxtiA,or the Anatmy of a Porpefs. 
much fliorter, but from It there didarile t^'o large Car- 
tilages, which after a little wiiile being refleSred, had 
joyned to tliein two narrow Bones, wliich were three 
rnohes long and bended like Ribs. Theft laft liiippole 
took for the QUviciiU^ although Kordtktius 
> r Dolphins have m£lavtc!fl.<'^ nor did I meet with 
..ufh,. 
I.'; il:r:lower ISiixtllit thcrc was a large Cavity filled 
wiih a fubftance that refembled a Glandulom. body or 
rather fat, diflPerent from that of the reft of the body, and 
confifting of feveral little bodies orderly placed toge- 
ther, more fliining and lefs fluid. Since the diffeclion 
this part hath made me think of tlie Spcrma, Ceti^ wdiich 
is feid to be found in the head of a fort of Bnrmulis 
Whale ; but fince by other Relations 'tis rendred dubi- 
ous whether there miglit not from other parts Idiewife 
be obtained the fame tallowy fit we call Sptrma Ceti, or 
at jeaft being ignorant in what particular part in the head 
it is, that this does lye, it has ftifled a conjeaura, whe- 
ther polfibty this might not be fometliing analogous to 
that inWha!es,fince aPorpels is of the Cetaceous Kind 
and hath fo many parts the (am.e and common to both as 
. #eciallywhatwe.fi2alldelcd!)e next, the Spirmdum! Fi~ 
fluLiOx Spo.'it., 
rhe Pipeot Sfout in this fifhis its Noflrils, andferves 
for the conveyance of Air in Refpi ration, as the jVares 
in. other Animals : But hath aifo this additional ufe for 
the /pouting out of water, which when with its prey it 
receives in a great Quantity not convenient to befwal- 
lowed,, and liaving no ( ills, it may be fent out this 
way without hazard of lofing what it had taken 
Its contrivance is very curious, arifing from the Palate 
with a fingle foramef/^ but wiien it perforates the WCra- ll^-'^- 
K!um, 'tis divided by an olfeous fipt/m into two, but above 
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