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when I had fpent near a whole Day in boiling the Cones in a 
Dyers Velfel, without changing the Water, except that I fup- 
ply’d what was evaporated, there was not fo much as a Drop of 
Oyl that did fwim upon the Liquor. 
Dr. Moulins takes Notice of a very ftrong Nervous Membrane, Z>. Moulin’* 
(which 1 ingenuoufly confefs I bad not time to remark, and there- Account of 
fore you have it in his own Word.) which obliquely defcended Man- 
from the Spina Dor ft to th z Sternum and Line a alba. 4 This Mem- ora * 1 ‘ 1 ^ cr * 
6 brane was very tough, and near as hard to be cut as Whale- y0ia ’ 
‘ bone .of the fame thicknefs; wh'ch all along the Back-bone 
‘ was about \ Inch, but nearer the end I try’d it, the thinner 
‘ I found it. This Membrane feera’d to terminate in the Line a 
4 alba, as the Tendons of the Mufclesof the Abdomen ufuaily do. 
4 Its Nervous Fibres were very diftingmlhable, and might eahly . 
* be feparated throughout their whole length. This d'oubtlefs 
4 was to ftrengthen the Creature, and perhaps that the weight 
4 of the Vifcera contain’d in the Abdomen , fhould not diftend the 
‘ Peritoneum and Mufcles adjoyning, fo as to let them hanglow- 
e er than was convenient. A like piece of Mechanifm you may 
remember I communicated to you not long ago, in my Obferva- 
tions made upon the Difle&ion of a Porpefs. 
After the ^kin was wholly remov’d, there being no Time to Defcription 
examine all the Mufcles of this huge Body, 1 apply’d my felf par -of the M»f- 
ticularly to thofe of the Probofcis , as being of greateft Moment, cles of the 
Wherefore the Body being Supine, I fixfb confider’d the Neck, and Probofcis. 
upper or fore-part of the Sternum , where I obferv’d two Pair of 
Mufcles to arife (harp and flelhy whereof two in the middle, from 
a fmall Origin, were extended into large Mufcles, running ftrait 
forward, and diftinguifh’d from each other by a white Line, till 
they came to the point of the lower Javvj their other fide run- 
ning obliquely outward, till they came over againft the Articu- 
lation of the Lower Jaw with the Upper: From thence keeping 
the lower part of the Lower Jaw, they return’d to the forefaid 
point, in Figure not unlike the Cuctillari t in Human Subjects, 
with their Fibres running obliquely forward from this middle 
Line toward their external part. This Pair ferv’d to draw back 
the Lower jaw, and like the Platyfha Myoid.es , cover’d ail its 
other Mufcles, with thofe of the Larynx, Tongue, and Pharynx. 
On the outfide of this Pair arofe two other Mui’cles, fmall at 
their beginning, and in their Progrefs palling in betwixt the Os R e tn$ores 
Zygomatic urn and Scull, adhering to the AD fc ulus Temporalis, and prob.iciui;.. 
L aft end- 
