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voir, at the fide of which is a yellowiih gland, like a 
pancreas. From thefe two bodies or glands one of 
which may be called hepatic, and the other pan- 
creatic, two conduits pafs out ; that of the pancreas 
is white, the other of a blackifh purple : the fir ft 
conducts its chyle, condenfed, into a refervoir or 
bladder, which may be rel'embled to the receptacu - 
lum cbyli of Pequet, and from thence pafics to the 
fecal matter : the other conduits to a body made like 
the mefentery, but which is always found out of the 
common capacity or cavity, in which all the vijctra 
are contained ; which I thus defcribe : 
This common capacity is very large, beginning at 
the head and ending at the tail of the filh : it is 
fometimes filled with a yellowifh water, and is form- 
ed by the flefhy body of the animal ; which is only 
a membrane compofed of fibres every way inter- 
woven together, open at the top, where the organs 
are lituated, which contain the purple juice. 
There is a hollow upon the back of the animal, 
where the canal, filled with a reddifh juice, pafies out, 
carrying it to a fringed body like a mefentery ; and it 
is there the purple juice is brought to perfection ; 
and afterwards goes to a long fack lying under a kind 
of horny plate, not like the bone of the cuttle-fifh, 
but like the bone of the Jepia, or little cuttle-fifh, 
which we call le couteau. This bone, or horny fub- 
ltance, is tranfparent ; and is of a triangular figure, 
or approaching the form of a bivalve fhell. On the 
right fide it is faftened by a ftrong cartilaginous mufcle, 
which binds it to the body of the animal ; and on 
the left it is open and detached, and ealy to be pulled 
up : then it is eafy to fee undei neath both the me- 
fenteric body, and the tube or refervoir of the pur- 
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