796 Mr. brown’s Defcription of 
When boiled it feemed to be attached to the vitreous hu- 
mour, which was not then coagulated, it had an oblong 
blackifh fubftance fixed to it like the fragment of a blood 
veffel, which I could with difficulty feparate. 
In the frefli fifli, the bottom of the eye, except where 
the optic nerve entered like a fmall elevated white fpeck, 
was laid over with a downy pearl-coloured paint; a 
part of which, upon fqueezing out the vitreous humour, 
fomet'imes floats on its furface. Upon removing this, a 
black foft painting appeared, which in the botttom of 
the globe, and.fomeway round the entrance of the nerve, 
had a reddifh caft, or ftreaks of red, buried in it : thefe 
were mafies of fine blood veffels, which I imagine had 
fprung from the fmall perforation before mentioned. I11 
the boiled eye, thefe paints were not much altered, ex- 
cept the red part, which, like all coagulated blood, was 
now become dufky. On the back part of the iris, or ra- 
ther the pofterior part of the aqueous humour, it was 
only covered over with the black coloured pigment. 
The mufcles of the eyes were remarkably ftrong, 
broad, and diftindt; for in fmall fifties they are in gene- 
ral fo pappy and tender, that it is very difficult to exa- 
mine them with accuracy. 
Their throat or fwallow is formed of an oblong, 
rounded protuberance on the backpart of the fauces, 
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