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t have faid in my former Letter, that the thinnelt 
part of the Tongue of an Oxe is compofed of Bony 
Particles, and that in thole Parts there is no Taile. 
Now we know, that an Oxe in the Chewing of his 
Viduals, does not only grind it by opening and Biut- 
ting of the Mouth, but by the continual Motion of the 
lower Jaw from the left to the right fide does as it 
were fcower it over the hindermofl: Teeth, by which the 
Meai is yet more broken and grinded than it could be 
by -the direft opening and Biutting of the 'Mouth as 
aforefaid. 
Now if we fuppofe, that bv the aforementioned Mo- 
tion, the Vi6luals are conveyed among the manifold 
Parts, a fmall Particle of which has been before defcri- 
bed in Fig. K, L, M, N ; and that thofe Parts by the 
Motion of the Mouth, do cauie fuch a prelTing or knead- 
ing of the Particles of the Meat, lying amongft them, 
that the faid Meat is, as it were, insinuated into the 
Parts, and by this means a ffronger fenfation of Tahe 
is produced in the Chewing of it again, than the Tongue 
enjoy’d at firh: ; and thus that which is wanting to the 
Tongue to enjoy the.Talfe, is doubly made good to it 
hy thofe Parts that are in the fide of the Moiith. 
As little as- the fpace is between the aforemention’d 
pointedParticles,! thought with my felf that there might 
he other and yet fmaller pointed Particles lying in the 
Skin between the greater, and faftned in the lower Parts 
and thereupon I difcover'd that there were a very great 
number of pointed Particles fhut up in the Skin, and 
which lay fo cl'bfe by one another as the Hair of one’s 
Head ; the Points of thefe feemed to me to be mod ly 
blunted :. Afterwards I obferved, that a great many of 
them were thick, clofe at the Root, and that the upper 
part of them was three times as flender as the under- 
mod ; from which Difcovery I concluded, that they 
.were all of them ofTuch a Figure, arid that in fepara- 
ting them from the Skin, mod of the flender Parts were 
broken. 
