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Pliocaena, or the Anatomy of a Torpefs. 
The^ Tongue was very curious of a mufeular or flelhy f Tab. i. 
fubftance, a little indented at the edges, about 2 Inches F/ £- 3 - Ai 
and 2 lo n g 5 an d about 1 and \ broad and pretty thick, 
but fo firmly fattened all along to the bottom of the 
Mouth, not to the Palate as Major and Bartboline la y, 
that it can’t exert orthruft its feif out beyond the Verge 
or Limits of the Mouth. And herein a Porpefs differs 
from a Dolphin : for as Rondeletius does obferve, Delphtnis 
lingua eft mob Hi s , qua mo To exert, mo To condt pot eft, non havens 
Palato ; and the lame is afferted likewife by Pliny, Solinus 
and others : and exprefly in (/) Rondeletius, Delphin hn- 
gmmtongiorem habet Marjtiino , Marfuinus eo latiorem : and 
therefore in his Figure he reprefents it hanging out. The 
life of the Tongue here I conceive is not for forming a 
voice ; for that gfunnitUs they lometimes make may be ra- 
ther formed in the parts of the ftftula \ nor probably for 
tatting, fince they (wallow their prey whole : But rather 
when young to help the motion of flicking, and when el- 
der that of deglutition. 
At the Root of the Tongue was the!) Larynx which 1. 
was very long and protufaerating, having its extremity an- 3 - Bt 
fevering and Ibrnewhat inferred into the bottom of the fiftu ' ’ 
la, like a Ducks bill : Bartholin fliith that C 'ollum Anferinum 
re fen ; Mr ..Ray makes it to refemble the Neck of an old fa- 
shioned Ewer, as Cafferius likens that of a Hog to a Guttur- 
niiim. The make of it was very curious and different 
from other Animals, chiefly in the length of the Cmitigo 
Arytainoides, the Epiglottis , and the Structure of the Scu- 
t if or mis ox Thyroides. The * Cart Hugo Annularis, or Cri- * ra ^ u 
coides was much the lame as in other Brutes. But the rig. $ .a. 
f fcutiformis here was not one entire Cartilage but two^BB. 
fdparated from one another, by the interposition of the 
Bafis of the Epiglottis , running up the Tides of it pretty 
broad, and fending down a narrower procels to the Ex- 
(f) Rond, de Fife. 1, 3 . cry. 9. 
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