. ( 7 ° ) 
Diameter from behind to before, 16 i Inches* from the Rigk 
to the Left, 12 Inches. 1 he breadth of the outer Hoof, 4 \ in- 
ches (b. ) the fore Hoof being Semicircular, 3 i Inches, ( a . ) 
the third and fourth Hoof 4 Inches each $ both inner and outer 
Hoof go obliquely forward. The Circumference of the hind Leg 
is 2 foot ? Inches, (R. R.) Thus you have the Dimenfions of all 
its External Parts, taken either from the Body, when it lay Dead 
in the Field, or fince from the Stuff’d Skin, wherein for the molt 
part they agree ; only that by reafon of drying, the Legs are 
fmaller, and the Back not fo protuberant. 
T^Cuticula Now I come to confider the Cuticula and Cutis, being the flrft 
and Cutis fubje&ed to Enquiry. Dr. Moulins has already at large infilled 
defer ib'd. moll judicioufly on both, and indeed he had good Opportunity 
to do fo , for he had the choice of any part of the Skin he pleas’d, 
(to view its Structure ) that was not defac’d by the Fire ^ 
whereas in our Subject, the chief endeavour of Provolt ‘Teaman 
being to preferve the Skin whole, in order to Stuff-i-tq (which is 
now done to fo good purpofe and fo lively, that it is become 
a moll curious Ornament, as the Figure after the Original, 
which now Hands in our Hall, doth reprefent) I had not an 
opportunity of making tryal upon any of it green ; for on the 
Monday, while I was oblig’d to go out and take care of the Bones, 
the Workmen were bufied in falting and preparing it, and after- 
wards I had not time : So that what Accounts I can give you are 
taken from it, as it now Hands dry. But that I may give you all 
the fatisfaftion lean, I lhall tranferibe what of Dr . Moulin s Ac- 
count I find agreeable to that I fee in this Subjeft, and add my 
own Obfervations. 
He fays, 4 he found the Cuticula cover’d all over with a Hrange 
T w r > 4 fort of Scab, in many Places refembling old Wrats, deeply jagged, 
his Account ‘ anc * l ^ e carnous Fibres of the Mufcles of Beef when much boil'd 
Jt the Scabs, ‘ and tranfverfly cut, but of a dirty tawny Colour. Ihefe Scabs 
4 (if they may be fo call’d,) both flit and look like fhort pieces of 
4 Whale-bone ; they did fo firmly Hick to the Cuticula , that they 
4 could not be pluck’d from it, nor the Parts of which they con- 
4 fiffed (tho* they were much divided,) from one another, with- 
z ‘out tearing it, and yet the Cuticula was very tough and 
4 thick- 
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