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them together. But confidering that the Nerves are 
commonly cover’d with fatty Particles, J concluded 
that thefe Apertures were no VelTels, but meer fatty 
Particles, which I found to be true when I had cut 
thro* them, and difcover’d that the inward Fat was 
eaten out by the Mites, which had left only the 
Hulks, or Cortices , of the Fat Globules behind : Which 
Cortices I never had as yet been able to difcover, 
becaufe the Cortices of the Fat Globules would, 
upon any heat, melt away as fall as the inward 
Fat. " - 
III. ObferVations upon the Veffels in federal forts of 
Woof and upon the Mufcular Fibres of different 
Animals . By the fame Curious and Inquifitiye 
tPerJon . 
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Delft, Jan . 24. 1721. 
S EEING fome reddifh Boards carry’d into a 
Houfe in my Neighbourhood, and enquiring 
what ufe they were delign’d for, I was anfwer’d that 
they were bought of the India Company to make 
Cabinets of, and that they came from the Ifland 
Amboina . 
I procured a piece of that Wood faw’d off at the 
end of a Board, as like wife fome of the Chips, in 
order to obferve the VelTels therein j and, cutting 
the Wood through all manner of ways, I found that 
in one place the Wood appear’d whkilh, that atafmall 
diftance 
