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aiding themfelves into Bill finer Ramifications, they 
enclofe every tingle Fibre in the whole Mufcle. 
Among!! feveral pieces of Fleth, where the car- 
nous Fibres were cut tranfverfly, I happen’d on one 
piece with its Branches fo plain, that the Membranes 
and Fibres look’d like fo many Boughs of Trees, 
with the Leaves on them, as may be feen at Fig. 2 1 
K. L . M. 'N* where M+ thews the fo call’d Membrane 
torn off from another, as alfo how many Branches 
it runs into, and the many Fibres it covers. 
All thefe carnous Fibres, with the fo call’d Mem- 
branes, lay very compact together, when I cut them 
off from the piece of Fleth, as likewife when J laid 
them on the Glafs, and moiftened them *, but as the 
moifture dry’d away, they thrunk again, in the man- 
ner here reprefented, and altho* the Defigner could 
plainly diflinguith the fmall Veffels which were cut 
thro’, the larged of which appear’d at M. Fig. 2. 
yet he was obliged to mark them only with Points. 
Here you may obferve, that all the carnous Fibres, 
having been clofely tied together by the faid Mem- 
branes, by which they were enveloped, which are 
nothing but a congeries of Veffels, could not be fe- 
parated from each other upon drying, but by tea- 
ring afunder thofe Membranes. 
The carnous Fibres along with the fo call’d Mem- 
brane, at Fig. 2. K. L. M. K do not take up fo 
much room, but that a grain of Sand may cover it, 
and yet one might very diflindly obferve, in fome of 
thofe carnous Fibres, the parts of which they were 
compofed. 
This Obfervation I was refolved to purfue in the 
Flefh of a Whale, of which I had kept two pieces by 
me, for about 7 or 8 Years, of about a Span long, 
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