a 6 Phocaena, or the Anatomy of a Porpefs * 
much fhorter, but from It there did arife two large Car- 
tilages, which after a little while being reflected, had 
joyned to them two narrow Bones, which were three 
inches long and bended like Ribs. Thefe laft I fuppofe 
Major ' took for the CUvicuU , although (n ) Rondeletius 
faith that Dolphins have no Clavicuh y nor did I meet with 
any in thisfifh. 
In the lower Maxilla there was a large Cavity filled 
with a fubftance that refembled a Glandulous body or 
rather fat, different from that of the reft of the body, and 
confifting of feveral little bodies orderly placed toge- 
ther, more firming and lefs fluid. Since the direction 
this part hath made me think of the Sperma Ceti , which 
is faid to be found in the head of a fort of B armadas 
Whale; but finceby other Relations ftis rendred dubi- 
ous whether there might not from other parts likewife 
be obtained the fame tallowy fat we call Sperma Ceti, or 
at leaft being ignorant in what particular part in the head 
it is, that this does lye, it has ftifled a conjecture, whe- 
ther poflibly this might not be fomething analogous to 
that in Whales, fince a Porpefs is of the Cetaceous Kind 
and hath fo many parts the fame and common to both, as 
efpeciallywhat we fhall defcribe next, the Spiraculum , Fi- 
Jlula or Spout, 
The Pipe or Spout in this fiftr is its Noftrils, and ferves 
for the conveyance of Air in Refpiration, as the Mares 
in other Animals : But hath alio this additional ufe, for 
the fpouting out of water, which when with its prey it 
receives in a great Quantity not convenient to be fwal- 
lowed, and having no Gills, it may be lent out this 
way without hazard of lofing what it had taken. 
Its contrivance is very curious, arifing from the Palate 
with a Angle foramen , but when it perforates the \}Cra-Wp b - 2 - 
nium , ’tis divided by an ofleous feptum into two, but above F ^’ x * 
fw) Tond.de Tifs.p. 461. 
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