Pliocxna^ or the Anatomy of a Torfcfs. 2 j 
finceall Clandules do make fame feparation, \re may 
feafonably fiippofe that this made by this Glandulous 
tunicle doth ferve for the further fermenting theChymous 
ma^matrm^mkted out of -the firft Ventricle. And na- 
ture feems very folUcitous herein, by making the Paflages 
out ofonein#o the other foftrait and narrow, that it can't 
eafily be tranfinitted from one to the other, before it hath 
undergone itsdue digeftion in each. 
Meeting with fb many Bones in the Gu/a^ it made me 
think whether poffibly after the flefh is corroded from 
them, it might not vomit them up ; or whether the G///^ 
may not in part perform the OiEce of the ftomach, ha- 
ving its inward Tiinick the lame. In fcveral fiflies there 
is no Gula^ but the llomach reaches^^g^^^i^l hroat. 
The Inteftwes in this fifli were long and fmall, being 
eleven times the length of the filli, or about fifty foot. 
They were almoft equally throughout of a bigneis, only 
Ibmething larger toward the Duodemm and Jmts. It 
had no C^cum or CoIo^t^. 
Opening the Extream of the Recfnm in the infide, l ob- 
ferved a white Pellicle or Skin like the inward Tunicle 
of the firil ftomach of this fiffi. From the Ams 'twas 
about three inches in length ; above this the Inteftinc 
wasof the fame make as elfewhefe. Aboutan Inchand 
I from the Jmis under tins Pellicle I took notice of a pret- 
ty large glandulous body that empties it felf by feveral 
duUHs s that perforate this Pellicle into the Cavity of 
the Inteftine, The OJIU of Ibme of them were pretty 
large, of others but Imall^ yet would eafily admit a 
brittle mto them. 
The ^;;f/.'j is placed a little below the Pude^dum^ it had 
its Sphin3:er Mulcle : by the falling of the skin in Icveral 
Rug^ ^twas fb clofed that no water couki get in. 
The Mefenttn in refpeQ- of the length of the Inteffines 
was butfinai], yerhadiiu n^M ;; iis MeferaicvefTels branch- 
ad as in other Brutes T.i^ t Wivtas Jfdln was large^. 
