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how they are articulated to each other, there are 
feveral Plates wherein they are reduced to leffer Scales, 
and again reduced, to give a View of them all united 
together in Reprefentations of fix different Skeletons, 
where the Difference of the Growth of the Bones is 
very apparent, as likewife the different Shapes of the 
Male and Female Bones. There are likewife feveral 
Plates of Bones prepared on Purpofe to fhew the Li- 
gaments which unite them together, as alfo the Car- 
tilages at their Ends, befides a great Variety of mofl 
curious and remarkable difeafed Bones. 
And at the Front and Clofe of every Chapter, as 
likewife the Blank Pages, are Skeletons of the inoft 
remarkable Animals of their kind, which are not 
only very ornamental, but even very ufeful ; mod of 
them defcribing the QEconomy of the different Species 
of Animals. 
The Author in his Treatife gives-a general De- 
fcription of the whole Work, tho’ not fo minutely 
as fame might expect, he thinking it ufelefs to give 
long Defcriptions in a Work of this Kind, one View 
of fuch Prints fhewing more than the fullefl Defcrip- 
tion can poflibly do ; for which reafon, in the fe- 
veral Chapters, the mechanical Contrivances of the 
Bones are rather treated of than their Shapes. 
Each Book has a double Set of Prints, one before 
they are letter’d, to fhew them in their full Per- 
fection ; and the other with Letters, anfwering to 
their Defcriptions. 
The Advantage of a Set of Prints before they are 
letter’d, will readily be perceiv’d, when compared 
with the other : And how much thefe Figures excel 
any others of their kind, will appear at the firft View, 
they 
