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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 VIFITEROVS FISHES. 
T^He RIB of a TRITON or MAREMAN. About the 
fame length with that of a Mans, but thicker and 
ftronger 5 and nothing near fo much bended. The Fifh 
to which it belonged, was taken near Br a file. Of this kind, 
Wormius, in his Mufdeum^ gives us divers Relations, toge- 
ther with the Defcriptions of feveral Species. See alfo 
Job. de Laet. (a) of the fame. And Barium, who faith, 00 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 JO YNT of the EKX-BONE of a WHALE. By 
Anatomifts called a Vertebra. 'lasanflb? one of thofe Parts 
or Joynts which anfwers to one fingle Rib on each fide. 
It weigheth Thirty pounds Haver -dupovs. In length, /. e. 
by the length of the Back-Bone, near * of a foot 3 above 
a foot high 3 and three quarters of a yard broad, /. e. by 
the brcdth of the Whale. The Hole in the middle of it, 
which the Marrow of the Back paifeth through, near half 
a foot over. All its Knobs, arc much alike thofe in Qua- 
drupedes. 
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