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are perfectly circular, with edges flat on the top, and 
a round cavity in the middle of each. They are 
largefl in the widefl part of the arm, and leflen as 
the arm diminifhes, till they become fo fmall as hard- 
ly to be difcernable. It is very difficult to tell their 
number : I counted as far as fifty in a row, but am 
certain there are many more; and I don’t imagine 
the eight arms have fo few as a thoufand on them. 
They rife fome height above the furface of the fkin ; 
and wherever they are not, the fkin of the arms (un- 
lefs on the under- fide) is granulated like fhagreen *. 
As in the other kinds of Polypi the mouth is placed 
between the arms confpicuoufly enough, I expeCted 
to find it fo in this ; but the fpirits had contracted it 
fo much, that I could difcern no opening at all where 
1 thought the mouth muft be ; and therefore could 
not fay, with aflurance, that the mouth was placed 
there. Under this difficulty I applied to Sir Hans 
•Sloane’s mofl valuable collection of natural hiflory in 
the Britifh Mufaeum, where I found feveral fpecies 
of this kind of Polypi, and amongft the reft a final I 
dried fpecimen of the fame fpecies as ours, and a 
much larger one in fpirits, of a fpecies that comes very 
near it. 
This large fpecimen afforded the information I 
flood in need of: for though here alfo the mouth was 
clofed, and the beak drawn down into the center be- 
tween the arms, fo as not to be feen at all } yet, by 
the help of Dr. Morton and Mr. Empfon, I had the 
fatisfaCtion to fee the mouth opened, and the beak in 
* Some of the Pour-contrel kind have but one row of fuckers on 
the arms ; futh an one I have feen, whofe arms were thirty inches 
long. 
