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the lame fituation, and of the lame form and fub- 
ftance, as in the other kinds of Polypi. Having 
gained this knowledge, by applying the point of a 
bodkin, I eafily felt the beak in our Polypus ; but in 
fo fmall a fubjedt it cannot be brought to view with- 
out difledtion, which is the reafon it does not appear 
in thefe drawings. 
Fig. 2. reprefents the Polypus fo placed as to fhew 
the fituation of the eyes and the form of its body, 
and alfo in what manner the arms are turned back in 
the lpecimen before us; but we may fuppofe them 
thus difpofed merely in the a<fi of dying, and that 
when alive they are moveable in all directions. 
On that fide of the body oppofite to the eyes, and 
which therefore may be termed the belly-part, there 
appears a tranfverfe flit or opening in the fkin, not in 
a ftrait line, but a little femicircular j from the an- 
terior part whereof a tube or pipe proceeds, about 
one third of an inch in length, fmaller at the extre- 
mity, where it opens with a round orifice, than at 
the bafe, and reaching to within a fmall difiance of 
the arms. As both the Cuttle-filh and Calamary 
have a pipe nearly in the fame fituation, though fome- 
what different in figure, through which they occa- 
fionally difcharge an inky liquor, and fome writers 
fay the fasces alfo, it is probable the pipe in this ani- 
mal may ferve to a like purpofe ; and as the body 
of the Calamary is included in a cafe, the flit acrofs 
the body of this animal fiiews its belly part to have 
alfo a fort of cafe,, though on its back there is no fe- 
paration as in the Calamary. 
Out of the aforefaid flit or opening a bag ifliies 
with a very flender neck, extending towards the tail*, 
; and 
