Piioc^a, or the Anatomy of a f orpefs. 
The* To^jrue was very 'cur imJs-, of a mulcular or fkfhy t 1. 
fubftance,a little indented at the edges, aboiit 2 Inches f^"^*3-^ 
and I long, and about i and I broad and pretty thicl^; 
but fo firmly faftened all along to the bottom of the 
Mouth, not to the Palate as ; Major and Barthline fay, 
that it can't e^ert.or thruft its felf out beyond the Verge 
or. Limits of the Mouth. . And herein a Poi-pefs differs 
from a Dolphin : foras/^f?/;^^t'A/mdoes obfe^^ 
lingtLt eft mohilisj modo exeri^mo^o condt foteft '^non Imrns 
Palato ; and the fame isafferted Ukewiie by VUny^Sortmis 
and others' : and exprefly in ;(/ ) .RonkUms^ Delphirpliri- 
gmmi'fi^ngionfn h'^hxt M^rfmm^ M^rjmms- eo lidorem : and 
tlierefore imhis Figure he repreftnts it ha.nging out.. The. 
ufe of tlie Tongue here I conceive' is not for forming a: 
voice ; for that grunmtns they fbmetimes make may be ra- 
ther formed in the parts of tlie fftda ; nor probably for 
tafling, fmcetlieylwallo-W their prey whole : But rather 
when young tO; help thcmotionof flicking, and when el- 
der that of dtiglutitiOn. 
At tlic Root of the Tongue was the il L^/try/^x which H "/'/ii?. 
was very long and protuberating, having its extremity an- 3' 
fwBriiig and lOmewhat inferted into the bottom of the fift^i^ 
/.t'jUkc^ iDucks bill : Bartholin i:^it\\tl\ztCollHm Jnjerimm 
refert 1; Mr. Ray makes it to refemble tlie Neck of an old fa- 
fhioned Ewer, as Cafftrm likens that of a Hog to a Gmur- 
nitm. The make of it was very curious and different 
from other Animals, chiefly in the length of the Cartikgo 
Jyytamoides^thQ Efiglottts^ and theStrufture of the^V//- 
tiformis or Thyroides. TliC ^ CaritUgo Jnmlaris^ or Cri- * rah. 
coida was much the fame as in other Brutes. But the '^^l 5 
'\ fmtiformis here was not one entire Cartilage but two+jB^. 
fcparated from one another, by the interpofition of the 
Bafis 0^ tho. Epigloms^ running up the fides of it pretty 
bjoad, and fending down a narroM'er procefs to the Ex- 
( f) R9nd, dc Fife* L 3, (r^p. 9, 
tream 
