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A Continuation of the Ofteographia Elephantina : Or, a 
Defer ipt ion of the Bones of an Elephant, which die A 
near Dundee, April the 27th, 1706. By Mr. Patrick 
Blair. 
B Eing come to the Internal Parts of the Head, we fhali proceed Inner Pans 
••as in Treatifes of Ofteology, by taking Notice of its Stru&ure, 0 / d-e Head. 
two Tables, Dip'oe, Figure and Extent of the inner Table, toffa. 
Eminences and Foramina •, of all which in their order. As there 
.is no Animal in proportion that is endued with a greater quan- 
tity of Brains than Man, fo there is none that feems to have iefs 
than the Elephant. In the one, ’twas fo order’d by the Wife Go- 
vernor of all Things, that they might be fufficientfor the Gene- 
ration of fo many Spirits, as are requilite for the Performance of 
the Rational and Animal Fundions ■, and in the other, had the 
quantity of Brains been greater, the Principia Nervorum had been 
more divided •, fo that inftead of being requifite, they had been 
vaflly inconvenient, becaufe the Nerves could not fo well re- . 
ceive the Spirits difpers’a in a greater Mafs, as now, when con- 
traded within lerter bounds : And fuch a contrivance as this 
being requifite, the interpofing of fuch a vaft diftance betwixt 
the two Tables of the Scull, as we fbaU come to give an Account 
of, is a ftupendious Piece of Mechanifm. 
As we before obferved, in the bottom of the Hole for the Root fab. 2. F/V, 
of the Trunk there are feveral Lamina (h. h.) to be feen. Thefe I# b 
Lamina, taking their Origin from hence, run backward in a Paral- 
lel, and fometimes oblique Line, to the fecond Table of th« 
Scull, or that part of it which inverts the Brain : And thefe La- 
mina being either horizontally, perpendicularly, or obliquely cdlulcg 
plac’d, meet with and interfed each other, forming intermediate^ Head. 
Cavities or Cellules (c.c.) of different Magnitudes, Pofitions and Fig. 4. 
Figures, according to the Intergerine Walls or Sides, whereof 
they are compos’d : So that although Dr. Moulins . , and after him 
Tentzelihs, feem to alfert, that they were for the mort part tri- 
angular, yet I have obferv’d them quadrangular, pentagonal, 
hexagonal, and redangular, and even fometimes irregular. Thele 
Cells run, as I faid, from the outer Table, of External Parts of 
the Scull (a. a.) to the inner Table or Seat of the Brain (b.b ) 
and communicate with on,; another by pretty large Holes, either 
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