j i Phocaena, or the Anatomy of a Tcrpcfs. 
lungs in a Dolphin that they are denfiore fubftnntia qu'im 
in terreflnbtis , crafflt udine & colore Epar refer unt. And 
the reafbn he gives wherefore it fhouid be fb, feems not 
. fatisfaQory. 
The Windpipe or drteria afper a was very fhort, as it 
' muft needs be, this fifh having no neck. The Larynx 
was of a fingular figure and very remarkable, which I 
fhall defcribc with the parts belonging to the head. 
But before I leave the Thorax I muft take notice of a 
leemingf Glandulousbody that did lye of each fide the + Tdb ' n 2 * 
Spine about two inches broad and the length of ten or Ftg ' '* 
'eleven Ribs. It was continued likewife a little over 
dome of the Sanguinary Veflels that went to the head. 
It was a curious contexture of fanguinary veflels vari- 
oufty contorted and winding, emerging from the Medulla 
Spinalis at the holes where the Nerves come out between 
the Ribs, and as we afterwards obferved the fame fiib- 
ftance likewife for a good thicknefs covered the Me- 
dulla Spinalis throughout. In the Thorax in fome places 
Twas above a quarter of an Inch thick, but everywhere 
it appeared of the fame Contexture, a winding and 
convolution of bloud- Veflels. What this part may be, 
Is more difficult to a{Iign,fince it does not ufually occur 
in the diffeCtionof other Animals, and has not been ta- 
ken notice of, as I know of, by any in this. But whe- 
ther it may be that the heat of fo much bloud contained 
in fo many veflels may ferve for the invigorating the 
Animal Spirits in the Medulla Spinalis , or whether it may 
not be a Glandulous body and fb ferve for the draining 
of the ferofitiesof the bloud and thereby render it fitter 
for generating Spirits, or what other ufes it may have, 
is to me yet obfcure. Formerly differing a fifli which 
Mippolytus Salviams calls Lupus y under the Cranium I ob- 
served a much like fubftance enveloping the Brain, and 
was of a good thicknefs ; the Pia Mater in Colour and 
• Jufter exactly imitating leaf Gold. 
Above 
