154 Profejfor camper on the Organs of 
g, h t k, /, the cricoid cartilage, divided in the middle, 
and expanded fidewards. 
by dy by and g, /,/, the arytenoid cartilages. 
iy ay and <2, by the holes or Allures at each fide of the 
epiglottis ; b and i, the cords which form the rima glotti- 
dis. All this anfwers exactly to the defcription given by 
GALEN. 
The air which is forced by expiration out of the lungs, 
and paffes with an accelerated velocity the rima glottidis y 
by iy being flopped by the hollow epiglottis and the roof of 
the mouth, narrow noftrils, Sec. rulhes into thefe ventri- 
cles z,x and q^,r,s fig. 2. or into the united large ventricle 
a , by dy e,fy g, fig. 6. Thefe are, as galen rightly ob- 
ferves, feemingly within the animal; for they are co- 
vered with the external integuments and the latijjimi 
colli. From thence, or out of thefe ventricles, the air 
gets out again by the fame fi flares <2, /, <2, by fig. 5. through 
the mouth and noftrils, without entering into the lungs 
again, or, as he expreffes it, without entering into the 
belly of the animal, rurfufque exit , nihil in ventrem depel- 
litur\ by venter is to be underftood the infide of the 
body. 
If this organ does not anfwer entirely to the defcrip- 
tion of galen, I do not know how to explain the quota- 
tion ; for there is no animal, as yet known, whofe organ 
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