4o Phooena, or the Anatomy of a Torpefs. 
very fair. How the Glandula Pineal is was, we did not 
well obferve, it being moft decayed, as we fuppofed by 
keeping. But the Tunica Choroides did fpread its felf in 
both ventricles, and being united on the Medulla Oblon- 
gata, did run down the length of above half an Inch ; ’twas 
the breadth of a Goofe-quill, and did feem -thicker than 
ufiial, and was a curious contexture of bloud-veflTek 
As for the inward parts of the Brain we did obferve all as 
delineated in Dr. Willis's figures ; and though Mr. Ray 
does fay that he did not obferve in that which he difleQ:- 
ed, thofe Protuberances call’d 'Nates and Tejles , yet 
we law them both very fair, but the Tejles were much 
larger than the Nates . The fubftantia Medullar is in the 
Cerebellum was very Curious and ramified like Feme. 
From the Medulla Spinalis upwards the Cerebellum was 
flatter and lefs protuberant than in other Animals. The 
Medulla Spinalis was covered, as is related before, with a 
thick Glandulous, or at leaft vafcular Tunicle, it fends 
forth abundance of Nerves, and at length makes a large 
Cauda Equina. 
Mr. Ray faith that the largenefs of the Brain in this 
fifh, and the Correfpondence of it to that of a Man’s, 
argues this Creature to be of a more than ordinary Wit 
and Capacity, and makes to feem left fabulous and im- 
probable thofe antient ftories related by Herodotus con- 
cerning Arion, by (a) Pliny the Elder concerning a Dol- 
phin enamoured of a Boy, whom he was wont to carry 
:rofs a Bay of the Sea from Baia to Puteoli to School, 
md by (f) Pliny the younger of another enamoured 
>f a Boy at Hippo in Africa , whom he was wont to 
arry on his back in like manner, (r) Paufinias has a 
ike flory, and (d) Plutarch relates how Eualus was fil- 
ed by Dolphins in like manner as Arion. Dio Chry- 
fom not only relates the flrory of Arion , but adds that 
he Mariners were executed, and Jo. Scaliger in Ammad. 
(a) Tlvn Hift. Nat. lib. 9. c. 8. (b) Plin, Epift. 33, lib. 9. 
) Taufan. in Laconic, (dj Thu arch, in Sympcf. 
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