j 8 r hccxna, or the Anatomy of a Porpefs. 
There are three ufes Mr. Ray affigns to this part, 
i. To keep the cold water at a diftance from the blond, 
which in this Animal is hot, and by an immediate con- 
tact would be apt to be chill’d. 2. To keep in the hot 
fleams of the blond from evaporating. 3 . Perhaps alio 
to lighten and counter poife the body of the fifh, which 
wouTd otherwife be too heavy to move and fwim in the 
water. Bartholin faith, that they make ufe of the Oyle 
for Lamps. 
The PanniculusCarnofns here was remarkable, confid- 
ing of mufcular fibres, which were of a more florid red, 
than that of the Mulcles. Its fibres from the back fem- 
ed obliquely attending ; but from the joyning of the fler- 
tturn to the Cofte and fb proportionably on tne Abdomen, 
defending obliquely and meeting at the Lima alba. I 
juft now mentioned the fibres that did run from the Pan- 
niculns through the fat to the skin : the ufe of them may 
be, more firmly to hold to the skin, which if joyned on- 
ly to the fat, would be much more eafily feparable. 
They may likewife give a. Motion to the skin, as the 
Ranmcidus Carnofns does in Brutes. And laftly run- 
ning through the Fat or blubber, they may very much 
ftrengthen the Cells or bladders. 
The Mufcular fle(h of this Animal refembled not that of 
Fifh, but rather Quadrupeds, being very Sanguineous, 
but of a dark red Colour. On the Abdomen we obferved 
the Mufculi oblique afcmdentes , oblique dejcendentes, tranf- 
verfales , & recti. The tendons of the three former con- 
ftituted the Line a alba , which was very broad and of a 
more curious but loofer texture than ulually : for we 
could eafily perceive how they did run in feveral Mam- 
puli, being interweaved and decuflating each other as re- 
prefentedin Fig. 1. Tab. 2. The Mufculi Recti were ve- 
ry thick and large ; on the Infide we obferved the Vena 
and Arteria Mammaria and Hypogajlrica. 
Under the Mufcles of the Abdomen lyes the Peritoneum , 
w hich is a thin though a double Membrane, in the dupli- 
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