art!. Of Quadmpedes. 1 1 
for which caufe, partly, they have all more eafie Labour 
than a Woman. 
The THROTTLE BONE of a Male AQ.UI- 
Q_U 1 5 which the People of Brafde call the King-Mon- 
key 3 being far bigger than all the other kinds 5 defcnbcd 
by J. de Laet, (a) out of Lerim. 'Tis a Bone, fo called W Lib. 15. 
by the Englifh, with the help of which he makes a very c ' 5 * 
great noife. For 'tis hollow, and very hard. Exceeding 
thin, and fo half tranfparent. In length two Inches and 
\. In height an Inch and I. In breadth almoft two Inches; 
At one end, hath an Aperture an Inch wide every way. On 
the top furrow'd, fo as to refemble a Puppies Skull. 
I fuppofe it is placed in the Throat, or at the upper 
end of the Zrfrj/7/x,near the Epiglottis, Job. Lerim defcribmg 
of it, (b) falfly calls it a Membrane. uJ'ifci 
The S LOATH. 'tgnavws five Pigritia. An Animal^.' 1 * l5 ' 
of fo flow a motion, that he will be three or four days, 
at lead, in climbing up and coming down a Tree. ( c) (c) Earths 
And to go the length of fifty Paces on plain ground, re- de ^ e 2 b " Brafi 
quires a whole day. (d) The Natives of Brafde call him (iciufius. 
Haii , from his voice of a like found : which he com- 
monly repeats about fix times together, defcending, as if 
one (hould fing, La,fol,fa,mh re, tit. (e) Whatfoever he CO in- 
takes hold of, he doth it fo ftrongly ( or rather flijiy ) as 
fometimes to fleep fecurely while he hangs at it. ( /) See 00 GuiieL 
his Defcription in Clufius, Marggraviut, Pifo, and others. Pifa 
They all feem to omit the length of his fore feet, which is 
almoft double to that of his hinder. 
From the lhag of his Body, the fhape of his Legs, his 
having little or no Tail, the flownefs of his gate, and his 
climbing up of Trees, as little Bears are us'd to do, he feems 
to come near the Bear-kind : from which he chiefly differs, 
In having but three Claws upon a foot. He breedeth prin- 
cipally in Florida and Brafde. 
Two BLACK-BEAR CUBS. The Defcription 
of the Bear, fee in Aldrovandus, Gefner, isrc. The Ana- 
tomy, in the Philofophical Tra?ij attions, N. 49. They breed 
molt in Nova Zemhla, and other of the more Northerly 
Countries. In Norway they hunt him, and fo in Helvetia 
and Mufcovy, and if he be fat, they account him a delicate £ Kectw 
Dlfh. (g) ria, & Mu- 
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