Part I. Of Quadruyede s. 
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for which caufc, partly, they have all more eafie Labour 
than a Woman. 
The THROTTLE BONE of a Male AQJJL 
Q_U I • which the People of Brafile call the King-Mon¬ 
key 5 being far bigger than all the other kinds 5 described 
by J. de Laet, (a) out of Leriws. 'Tis a Bone, fo called M Lib - 1 5 - 
by the Englifh , with the help of which he makes a very c ’ 5 ‘ 
great noife. For ’tis hollow, and very hard. Exceeding 
thin, and fo half tranfparent. In length two Inches and 
i In height an Inch and l In breadth almoft two Inches. 
At one end, hath an Aperture an Inch wide every Way. On 
the top furrow’d, fo as to refemble a Puppies Skull. 
I fuppofe it is placed in the Throat, or at the upper 
end of the Larynx, near the Epiglottis. Job. Lerim defcribing 
of it, (b) falfly calls it a Membrane. W J- de 
The S LOATH. Ignavm five Pigritia. An Animal ' 15 
of fo How a motion, that he will be three or four days, 
at lead:, in climbing up and coming down a Tree, {c) (c) Barmis 
And to go the length of fifty Paces on plain ground, re- de 2 p ‘ e 2 b ' Braf ' 
quires a whole day. (d) The Natives oi Brafile call him obchfius. 
Haii , from his voice of a like found : which he com¬ 
monly repeats about fix times together, defending, as if 
one lhould fing, La,fol,fa,mi, re , ut. (<?) Whatsoever he COM* 
takes hold of, he doth it fo ftrongly ( or rather Jlifly ) as 
fometimes to fleep fecurely while he hangs at it. (/) See r/j Guild* 
his Defcription in Cluftus, Marggraviies, Pifo , and others. Plfa 
They all feem to omit the length of his fore feet, which is 
almoft double to that of his hinder. 
From the ihag of his Body, the fhape of his Legs, his 
having little or no Tail, the flownefs of his gate, and his 
climbing up of Trees, as little Bears are us’d to do, he feems 
to come near the Bear-kind: from which he chiefly differs, 
In having but three Claws upon a foot. He breedeth prin¬ 
cipally in Florida and Brafile. 
Two BLACK-BEAR CUBS. The Defcription 
of the Bear, fee in Aldrovandus, Gefner, Isrc. The Ana¬ 
tomy, in the Philofophical Tranfaliions , N. gp. They breed 
molt in Nova Zevibla , and other of the more Northerly 
Countries. In Norway they hunt him, and fo in Helvetia ^ .. 
and Mufcovy , and if he be fat, they account him a delicate af R^ciba- 
Dilh. (g) 
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