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Fig. 2. 
Phocaena, or the Jmtomy of a Torpeft, 29; 
dance of ffnall Glands lomewhat diftin£t and leparate 
from one another. Several bloud-Veffels did run to 
them ; and generally I may lay of the whole Body, there 
is farce any Animal in which the Veins and Arteries are 
more curioufly branched or more numerous than in this. 
1 . For on diet Mufculm Pfoa s their Ramifications were lo 
■ H - many and large, and their Amflomofes into one another lo 
frequent, that they formed a curious Net work, and aft. 
forded a very plealant fight. And no lefi Curiofity we 
oblerved in the bloud it lelf, by examining a fmall part of 
it with a good Microfope : for after it was a little 
dryed on the object plate which was of Glals, we found . 
that it had fhooted into a molt delicate regular figure, 
being reticular like the texture of the Omentum ; only 
that from the fides of the leveral Area’s, there were lome 
fmall branches or fhootings of fibres .that were not con- 
tinued*. 
We come now to the middle Venter or the Thorax r 
which was large and capacious, covered with Mulcles 
almoft as in Quadrupeds, having two large Pedtoraf 
Mufcles that went to the fore-Fins, as likewile leveral 
other Mulcles that did lerve for the performing its va- 
rious Motions, and were curioufly contrived. There 
weretwo Mufcidi Inter cofi ales ^ . ext emits and inter nits. It 
fob. had * thirteen Ribs of each fide, five fattened to th e jler^ 
2 2 * num, two other had Cartilages, but not quite continued 
to the (lernum unlels by tendons. The Ribs as they de- 
fended grew fhorter, lo that the laft was but a little 
higher than the Mufcultts Pfoas. I fhall give a fuller ac- 
count of the Ribs, as alio th z Sternum y when I come to 
defnbe the Skeleton , and fhall only add that the Ribs 
arifing from the Spine do incline towards the Abdomen , 
lb that they make a very acute angle with the Spine. 
The Cartilages or rather bones that go from the firft five 
Ribs to the fiernmn, are refledted upwards towards the 
head and make with the Coft# acute angles allot At 
l the upper: . part of the II Jlermm which was firoad ; and 
fomev; 
