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I cut through the Flefh both crofs and length-ways, 
in order to difcover the thicknefs of its Particles y and 
after I had cut thin Scales a-crofs, they appear’d of a 
bright red Colour $ but when 1 cut them thicker, they 
were of a dark Red 5 and when very thick, they were 
blackifh. In this Operation I obferv’d, that the fmall 
Flefhy Mufcles were furrounded with very thin Fibrous 
Particles, that look’d like little Membranes torn to pieces : 
And upon feveral Parts of thefe little Membranes, there 
lay Fat, which, when there is a quantity of it together, 
they call the Train $ and thefe Train Particles liy pref* 
fed together in the fame manner as I have formerly 
defcribed thofe of an Oxe* nor were they bigger than 
the Particles of the Fat of an Oxe$ and many of thefe 
Particles were like melted Fat 5 infomuch, that when 
I fqueez’d the Flefh, the Fat came out at the end of 
it. 
I laid a fmall part of this Flefh, after that I had cut 
it into little pieces, in Water, and I obferv’d that the 
Flelh was thinner when it was dry, than when it was 
foak’d through : and in comparing the Flefh of a Whale 
with the Flefh of an Oxe, I judged that the Particles of 
the former were finer than thofe of the latter. 
Now, in order to demonftrate the finenefs or flen- 
dernefs of the Parts of the Flefh, length-ways, of fo 
great a Creature as the Whale is (for this was above 50 
Foot long) I placed one of the Hairs of my Beard by 
one of the Flefh Particles of the Whale, and I judg’d 
that the faid Hair was at lead Nine times thicker than 
one of thofe which I may call a little Flefh Mufcle, it 
being again compofed of other long Particles or Fi- 
bres. 
I could not afcribe either a round or Sexangular Fi- 
gure to thefe little Flefh Mufcles of the Whale, be- 
caufe they lay fo comprefs’d in one another, that they 
appear’d in feveral Shapes, but mod of ’em were incli- 
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