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the Brain, was much more tender, .foft, and flaccid, than could have 
tieen expected. Whether this proceeded from keeping the Head 
2 or ; Days after the Animal dy'd, before it was directed, the 
Weather being then very hot, or from the languid Diftemper 
whereof it dy’d, I know not. Its Subftance, Ventricles, and other 
Parts, were the fame as in other Animals. The Cerebrum had 
three large Productions at the Bafts t one anterior, from whence 
the Nerve Olfaftorij proceed, ana two lateral on each fide of the 
Celia Turcica, reaching from the Procejfus Petrofus behind to the 
above named Production before : For the Blood VefTels and Nerves, 
which enter in and proceed from the Brain, we fhall difeourfe of 
them more particularly, when we come to the Holes of the Scull. 
I muft not forget to tell you, that at the opening of the longi- 
tudinal Sinus, the e were alfo Pol>fus's, which proceeded from 
the Orifices whereby the Blood emptieth itfelf in the Shsss. 
Thus far the Anatomical Account of the fofter Parts of this 
Animal ; which I acknowledge to be deficient in many things, 
and thofe confiderable. I rather chofe to give you a lame Ac- 
count of what confifted with rny own Knowledge, than intrude 
upon you meer Conje&ures for pofitive Truths, in order to ren- 
der it more compleat. 
I come rtow to the Fifth Thing I propos’d, wherein I hope to The O'uolc- 
be more happy, as having more time to confider the Bones tha n-gical Account,: 
formerly I had to Survey the fofter Parts 5 and doubt not to of the EH 
render this Defcription fatisfaCtory to fuch as fhall be willing plianr, 
to know more particularly the Structure and the Parts of the. 
Bones of an Elephant. The Animal is big, the Bones large, and 
there be feveral things to be confider’d in them, which do not 
readily happen in the Ofteolng y of other Animals >, therefore I hope 
you will execufe me, if 1 prove more tedious than might be wifh’d. 
My chief defign is to fatisfy your Honourable Society, your fslf, 
and Tent z.e lists ; and if l do that, 1 have my aim. 
I fhall begin at the Head, as is ufual in Ofttology *, where I 
fhall firft take Notice of its External Shape in general next give 
an Account of the Bones whereof ’tis compos’d ; and laftly, give 
you a particular Defcription, firft of its External, then of its 
Internal Parts •, fhewing their particular Dimenfions and Weight-, 
and aferibing their Ufes to each of them as they occur, and as 
we can probably conjecture. 
This,: 
