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the Oj Frontis in ours, as in theirs,' were full of Mat- 
ter, like a friable Fat. The Mammillares Procejf/tts, in - 
curs, as in theirs, were very large. In the Eye both of 
them agreed exadly, the Globe not exceeding four 
Lines and a half in Diameter, the Aperture of the- 
Lids being much larger, and the Pupilla being, as large 
as the whole Globe of the Eye ^ the Cryftalline con^ 
tained three Lines in- Breadth, and two and an half im 
Thicknefs, and was more convex inwards than out- 
wards*, this Thicknefs of the Cryftalline made the 
two other Humours to be lefs in Quantity. The Ch‘a- 
roides was all over of the fame Colour, viz, of a very 
brown red, without any Tapetum, which is hardly ever 
wanting in the Eyes of other Animals. 
Thefe are all the remarkable I>ifFerences, that we 
could difcover,. Ipetwixt ours and that of the Parijidn 
Academifts ^ only I muft inform you of fome Things, 
as t0‘ the Maimer of its Living and Diet, which they 
had- not the Occahon to obferve in theirs.. 
I believe they are mifinform’d in faying, that they 
carry their Tails ere.fted, at leaft the Tail of this was 
always trailing on. the Ground * neither can I be 
induced to believe that they eat their Tails, for there 
was no Part of her that fhe could endure lefs to be 
handled than her Tail, the leaft touching of which 
would- mak-e her cry, or rather hifs like a Snake 5, fhe 
could endure no manner of Cold 5 for in the Intervals 
betwixt the Times of eating, fhe was either beneathr 
the Bed-cloathSi or on a Cufhion before a Fire, with- 
thc Heat of which, ftie feemed to be extreamly well' 
pleafed. 
Her ordinary Meat was butter’d- Eggs, Milk and^ 
Bread, all manner of roafted Flefh, but no Fifh: L 
once, try ’d her with a new kill’d Partridge, which fhe.* 
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