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The mouth of the Pour-contrel, Cuttle-fifh, and 
Calamary, is placed in the fore-part of the head, be- 
tween the arms, having an horny beak, hard and 
hooked like a parrot’s, which fome writers call the 
teeth. The eyes of them all are nearly in the fame 
pofition. 
As the fubjeCt under examination refembles in 
fome particulars all the above kinds of Polypi, this 
ihort account of them may, it is hoped, render the 
following defcription of it the more intelligible : and 
with the fame view, Mr. George Edwards, Fellow of 
the Royal Society, has been fo obliging as to make 
drawings of the animal itfelf, in four different po- 
fitions, and of the natural fize ; which drawings are 
herewith prefented to your Lordfhip. 
Our Polypus is of the Pour-contrel kind, and I be- 
lieve of that fpecies called Bolytama ; which is faid 
to have a mufky fmell ; but if ours had luch a fmell, 
the fpirits wherein it lies have taken it quite away. 
In the drawing [See Tab. XXIX. Fig. i.] is fhewn 
the anterior part of this animal, which has much the 
appearance of a Star-fhh. Here are eight arms about 
three inches in length, united at their roots, and pla- 
ced circularly at equal dihances in the fame plane, 
which has a confiderable finking towards the center. 
Thefe arms diminifh from their rife to their extremi- 
ties, and end exceedingly fmall. Near the head they 
are quadrilateral, but the under- fide contracting gra- 
dually to an edge, they become towards the ends tri- 
lateral. On the upper lide of each arm are two rows 
of acetabula , or fuckers, handing in a beautiful or- 
der, as clofe as they can well be placed, and begin- 
ning from the center of all the arms. Thefe fuckers 
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