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and -tis obfervable, that fuch Creatures as have moll of thefe 
Laming, have their Smelling the more acute. Now this Structure is 
only to be feen in thofe Animals, whofe Septum intermedium and 
two tides of the Nofe confift of Bones, at lead fo far as their La- 
min* are extended } but it fares otherwife with our Elephant , 
Whofe Os Ethmoides is very thin, and has no Laming Spongitf c 
adhering to its outlide, nor a Bone for the Septum , or Sides to 
guard thefe Laming , which would have been inconvenient, for then 
the Probofcis could not have mov’d with the fame Facility, e’en 
from its Root, as it doth. Therefore to fupply this defed, and 
dill to continue the Smelling fo acute, if not more in this than 
in many other Animals, ’tis provided, that the anterior Fojfa 
fhould be very deep, that the Production of the Brain in it might 
be the greater; and left its Surface fhould ftiil be too fmall, there 
fhould be eminent Lines both in the Vomer and throughout the 
reft of the Bone, that there might ftiil be more fpace for branch- 
ing out the Nerve, as it proceeds from its Origin. T here may 
alfo be another Reafon alledg’d for thefe Protuberances, viz., be- 
came the Brain is more pendent here than elfewhere, they 
may ferve as fo many Columns to fupport it, left by its Weight 
it fhould lean too much upon the Os Cribrofum , fo that the Origin 
of the Nervm Olfattoritu beiDg too much prefs’d, inftead of a 
clear, might afford a very confus’d Idea of smelling } and, that 
even within the Scull it may be fo divided and difpers’d in this 
Animal, as it ufeth to be without it in others; So that the defeft 
of the Laming Spongiofg without, is fupply’d by this diverfity of 
Perforations and Eminences in the OsCrtbrofum within. Indeed in 
Horfes there is- fomewhat of this Structure to be oblerv’d: The 
Os (fribrofum feems to be proportionally as large \ its Perforations 
as frequent^ and th cLamingSpongiofa without, both few and thin fet ; 
by which that Creature has but an ordinary Senfation of Smelling, 
and only fuch as is convenient for the choice of its Food; be- 
caufe the Nervus olfattorius has not fuch a fpace wherein to be 
difpers’d, as the Septum and Cartilaginous Sides of the Probofcu ; 
which is fo great, that fcarce can a Particle of any odoriferous 
Subftance efcape the touching of fome one or other of the Ner- 
vous Filaments ; Whereas in Horfes, there being but a fbort fpace 
betwixt the Os Cribrofum and the Nofe, the additional Surfaces of 
the Laming Spongiofg , and the tenfion of the Bone of the Nofe 
on both fides, otherwife than in the Elephant, who has no Bone 
there at all, are very convenient to fupply that deleft; for you 
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