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In fhort, He makes Refpiration to be a Motion of the T horax 
and Lungs, whereby the Air is fometiffles impelled bytheNofe, 
Mouth and Wind-pipe into the Lungs $ and thence again expel- 
led 5 farther to elaborate the Bloud,by Refrigerating it , and by 
Separating its fuliginous fleams, and fo raife it to its ultimate and 
highefi perfedfion, for the Confervation of the Life of Animals. 
Notice may be taken here by the by, that this Author in his 
Preface promifes the publiihing of a Treat if e about Infers $ in 
which he engages to mew many wonderful things in thofe little 
and feemingly contemptible Creatures, and in particular to de- 
monftrate to the Eye the very method and manner how a Cater- 
pillar is tranfmuted into a chry falls or Aurelia : By performing of 
which, he hopeth, he fhallnwke the Curious bear more eafily t*he 
lofsof Dr. Harveys Treatife on that Subjed. 
Ill, ohfeivations faites fur vn GRAND POISON, & vn 
LION, diffeques dans la Billiotheque du Roy « Paris, le 24, & 
le 28 . fuin,i66j, 
/"■"“'His Great Fiji , diftedfed by the Pari fun Philofophers, was 
JL a Hulpecula Marina (a Sea-fox :) in which they obfei ve’d 5 
Firfl, The length of his Tail, equalling very near the whole 
length of the reft of his body, (the whole Fifli being S i feet long) 
andfafhioned after the manner of a Sithe, bowed and turned up 
toward the belly. 
Secondly, His Mouth was armed with two forts of Teeth *, one 
fort in the upper Jaw, being pointed, hard and firme,and of one only 
bone, in the manner of a Saw : the ether fort, found in the reft 
of the upper, and in the whole under- Jaw, were moveable, and faft- 
ned by ftefhy memb'anes. 
Thirdly, His Tongue did altogether adhere to the lower Jaw, 
audits skin was hard and covered with little ihining points, which 
rendred it very rough and fcabrous one . way. T he points viewed 
with a Microfcope, appeared transparent like’Chryftal. 
Fourthly, His Throat was very large, and the Oefophagus. as largs 
as his Maw | concerning which Authors fay, that he hath the dex- 
terity of difengaging himielf from the fwallowed hook, by calling 
it up together with his Mar v 9 the infide of it turned our. They 
lii 2 found 
