Phoctcna, or the Anatomy of a Torpefs. jp 
it may be, that by its equal contraction of tliESckrotlsto 
which Tis fattened, it renders the Ball of the Eye um^re 
or lefs fpherical, and fb fitter for vifibn. MiieiTunicdfdk^l 
r o t ic a was much more" denfe and hard than in other Ani- 
mals. The Chor aides was party-coloured, a mixture of 
Blue and' Green, Which is not in the Pbrms tetreftrisi 
The Pupil Was Oval which is not fo common in other 
fillies. The Cryftalline Humor was of a Spherical figure, 
but feemed to be a little more convex in the anterior 
than potter ior part. The Oftkk Nerve was not Merged 
lo laterally as in Quadrupeds, but rather in Am OctUL 
ill 
The Brain in this fifii was large, it weighed \xvi \ and 
refembled much more that of Quadrupeds than fi files. 
Its figure was fomewhat fiiort, but what it wanted in 
length, it had in breadth. The Cerebrum Was feparated 
from the Cerebellum by an os tr/angalare^ as in Dogs and 
fbme other Animals. 1 he Brain was divided into two 
Hemifpheres, though Rondelet/asdoQS fay that in a Dol- 
phin ’tis not divided into dextrum & fwiftrwn. It had its 
Anffaffus, but not fb deep as in fome. Itsfurface was 
curioufiy ramified with bloud-veffels. There were the 
[mas's and dura and p/ a Mater , the fdfantia Corticalis & 
Medullar ft ; Nor in any thing was it more different from 
tlie itfiial make and conformation of it in other Ani- 
mals than in thedefebfof the Olfabtory Nerves and Pro- 
ceffus Mmillares, which is -dike wile taken notice of by 
Mr. Ray. But for all this (y) Rondekt/as thinks they fmell, 
where he faith, In Delfb/nis nec foramen (Narium ) nee 
medtiis alius ef[ etiamft fagaeffime odorentur , at t eft is ejl 
Ariftot. ( Hitt.; Anim. c. 8. ) & Experientia ipfti confir- 
ms. The Optick Nerves weredarge, and did leem to be 
united as in men, and not fb plainly to decuffate each 
other as is ufiial in fbme fillies. We obferved the Nervi 
Oculorum motorif Pathetic / , &c. in all about eight or nine 
Pair. The Infundibulum and GlanduU Pit ait aria were 
(y ) Ron del d.c Fifed, 3. cap. 3 . p. 57', 
very 
