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very fubtile. The entry above, for the Bird her felf 3 her 
Eggs and Chicks hanging fafe at fo great a depth 3 the 
lower, till thefe are fleg'd, being in the mean time ftop'd 
up with Feathers, Mofs, or other like materials : but after- 
wards laid open for them, that cannot reach the top, to 
fly out at below. 
SECT. V. 
OF FISHES. 
CHAP. I. 
OF VIVITEROZJS FISHES. 
T He RIB of a TRITON or MAREM AN. About the 
fame length with that of a Mans, but thicker and 
ftronger 3 and nothing near fo much bended. The Fifh 
to which it belonged, was taken near Brafile. Of this kind, 
Wormim, in his Mufdeum, gives us divers Relations, toge* 
ther with the Defcriptions of feveral Species. See alfo 
Joh.de LaeL (a) of the fame. And Bar laws? who faith, 60 L * 
That in Brafile he is called Tpupiapra. 
A BONE faid to be taken out of a MAREMAIDS 
HEAD. It is in bignefs and fhape not much unlike that 
called Lapis Manati 3 but the knobs and hollows thereof 
are fomewhat different. 
One JOYNT of the SfBCK-B ONE o f a WHALE. By a 
Anatomifts called a Vertebra. "WEB&p one of thofe Parts dgt- 
or Joynts which anfwers to one Angle Rib on each fide. 
It weigheth Thirty pounds Haver dupo'vs. In length, /. e„ 
by the length of the Back-Bone, near * of a foot 3 above 
a foot high 5 and three quarters of a yard broad, h e. by 
the bredth of the Whale. The Hole 111 the middle of it, 
which the Marrow of the Back paffeth through, near half 
a foot over. All its Knobs, are much alike thofe m Qua- 
drupedes. 
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