Phocatna, or the Anatomy of a Torpefs. 1 j 
■fince all Glandules do make fome reparation, we may 
realbnably luppole that this made by this Glandulous 
tunicle doth ferve for the further fermenting the Chymous 
magma tranfinitted out of the firft Ventricle. And na- 
ture leems very follicitous herein, by making the PalTages 
out ofoneinso the other loftrait and narrow, that it can’t 
eafily be tranfinitted from one to the other, before it hath 
undergone its due digeftion in each. 
Meeting with fi) many Bones in the Gul.i, it made me 
think whether poffibly after the flefh is corroded from 
them, it might not vomit them up ; or whether the GuU 
may not in part perform the Office of the ftomach, ha- 
ving its inward T unicle the lame. In leveral fifties there 
is no Gala, but the ftomach reaches upto the T hroat. 
The InteJUnes in this fifti were long and fmall, being 
eleven times the length of the fifti, or about fifty foot. 
They were almoft equally throughout of a bignefs, only 
fomething larger toward the Duodenum and Anus. It 
had no C tecum or Colon. 
Opening the Extream of the Rectum in the in fide, I ob- 
lerved a white Pellicle or Skin like the inward Tunicle 
of the firft ftomach of this fifti. From the Amis ’twas 
about three inches in length ; above this the Inteftine 
was of the lame make as ellewhere. About an Inch and 
l from the Anus under this Pellicle I took notice of a pret- 
ty large glandulous body that empties it lelf by leveral 
duttufs that perforate this Pellicle into the Cavity of 
the Inteftine. The OJlia of lomeof them were pretty 
large, of others but IrnaU, yet would eafily admit a 
brittle into them. 
The Anas is placed a little below the Pudendum, it had 
its Sphincter Mu fcle : by the falling of the skin in leveral 
Ruga ’twas io doled that no water could get in. 
The Mefentery in refped of the length of the Inteftines 
was but finall, yet had numerous Meferaic veflels branch- 
ed as in other Brutes. The Pancreas Afellii was large, 
