Phocaena, or the Jnatomy of a Torpefs. 41 
in Eufeb . p. 84. does aflert it to be no fable but a true Hi- 
ftory. But ( f) A. Gellius makes it to be an Impofturc 
of Herodotus , as alfo does (g) Strabo. And conndering 
the Lubricity of the skin of this fifh, the protuberancy 
of its back, and its undulating not horizontal motion in 
fwimming, it does confirm their Cenfure, 
— -fed quid non Gracia mendax 
Audet tn Hifioria ? 
However Severinus (in his Phoca illujlratus, p.m.ij. ) 
relates out of Fran. Lopes ( Hijl. Indict General, cap. 31. J 
that a Manatus or fort of Sea-calf was kept in a Lake in 
Hijpaniola that was grown very tame, and did ufo to car- 
ry on his back from one fide of the Lake to the other ten 
boyesatonce. 
Jrijlotle (J) grants that Dolphins hear, butiaith, they 
have no Ears ; (k) Pliny writes the lame, but we rather 
concur with Rendeletius , (l) fed if a ex diffeftione falfx 
apparent ; meatus enim audiendi in Delphino hujufmodi 
comperiuntur , quales ad fonos percipiendos idonei effe pof- 
funt. ’Tis true they have no Auricula ; , which though 
they would advantage their hearing, yet would injure 
their fwimming ; and the Porus Auditorius is extream mi- 
nute and fmall, for if larger, the water getting into it, 
might likewifo prove an Inconvenience. But the ftru- 
* Tab. 2. cture of the Organ of the Ear, or the Os * Petrofm in this 
fig. ii. Animal is very remarkable, and different from any that 
I know yet deforibed. 5 Tis foated in a large cavity of the 
Cranium , but not locked in by futures or the joyning of 
the other Bones, but fattened chiefly by the intervention 
ofMufoles: ’Tis the hardeft bone in the body, its colour 
white, its figure irregular, and difficult to be deforibed 
C O A. Gellita Nett. Attic. 1 . 16. t. 19. (g) Strabo l. 
(x) Arift. Hi ft. A mm. 1 . i.c. 1 1 . (kj Pliny Hift . Nat. i. il.c. 
(\) Rond.de Pifc. I K c. 3. p- 50. 
