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is perforated on the infide for a Wire, which runs through the 
Bone of the Metacarpus and inner Toe. The third 0 s Cuneiforms 
is perforated for a Wire which paffes through the Bone of" the 
Metacarpus and outer Toe. The three OJfa Cuneiformia are join’d 
to each other by a folded Wire, which runs twice from their 
outfide to the infide, where they are fecured. 
S/V, By the Opportunity I have had of preparing and joining 
thefe Bones, it may be expe&ed I fhould give fome Accouiu of 
their Structure : But as the defign of preferving the Sceleton en- 
tire gave me no Liberty to go any further than their External 
Surface, fo it cannot be expedted I could dive any deeper in the 
Knowledge of them, Tentzelius fays, Omnia ifihac Off a porofa 
■funt & rimofa ; and 1 may add, Levi a too : For there is nothing 
about them to be feen of that Solidity and Compadnels, that 
fmoothnefs of Surface, and Whitenefs, which is obfervable in 
other Quadrupeds of the larger fize, fuch as Oxen, Horfes, Harts, 
&c. or fmaller, as Sheep, Dogs, Cats, &c. And i fhould have 
I readily attributed this to the Youth of the Animal, had not 
Tentz.elius from his Subject, fuppos’d to be 200 Years Old, told 
the fame. And this differs much from the Account of the Behe- 
moth in Job, whofe Bones are faid to be as ftrong pieces of Brafs, 
and Bars of Iron. The Lamina of the Head were thin and folid ; 
i the External Table thin and more ponderous ; the Teeth exceed- 
ing folid and ponderous : So that from the computation of the 
Weight of the upper part, which was taken off by the Saw, as 
in Tab • 4. Fig. 5 . and 6. which is only 6 ft. weight, I may 
reckon all the Head, which weighs 66 ft. befide the Teeth, not to 
weigh above 24 ft. at moll ; which well agrees with what Tentulius 
fays, that each cf the Dentes Molar es were 12ft. weight, and 
■ that of all the 45 ft. which the Lower Jaw weighs, the reft of 
the Bone befide the Grinders do not exceed 12 or 16 ft. For its 
External Surface feems to be both porous and rimous, as is faid ; 
and at perforating the Condyles feenrd to be very fpongy, as were 
the Ri s, Femur, Tibia , &c. where, after the Drill had pafs’d the 
External Lamina , which was very thin, it would have run for- 
ward as if it had been through fo much Mofs. When the Epi- 
phyffs came off the Thigh Bone, it refembled very much the Epi- 
phyfs of the Femur in Man •, its minute Cellules were not fo big as 
thole of anOxe,and the Lamina which circumfcrib’d them, not by 
much fo folid. The Humerus indeed both above and below was 
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