Part I. 
Of Fijhes. 
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very fubtile. The entry above, for the Bird her felf; her 
Eggs and Chicks hanging fife at fo great a depth 5 the 
lower, till thefe are fleg’d, being in the mean time dop’d 
up with Feathers, Mofs, or other like materials: but after¬ 
wards laid open for them, that cannot reach the top, to 
flyout at below. 
SECT. V. 
OF FISHES. 
CHAP. I. 
OF VIVITEROVS FISHES. 
HTHe RIB of a TRITON or MAREMAN. About the 
fame length with that of a Mans, but thicker and 
ftronger 5 and nothing near fo much bended. The Fifh 
to which it belonged, was taken near Brafile. Of this kind, 
Wormirn, in his Mufotum , gives us divers Relations, toge¬ 
ther with the Defcriptions of feveral Species. See alfo 
Joh.de Laet. (a) of the fame. And Barlaus, who faith, OJL.15. 
That in Brafile he is called Tpupiapra. c ' I2 ‘ 
A BONE faid to be taken out of a MAREMAIDS 
HEAD. It is in bignefs and fhape not much unlike that 
called Lapis Manati 5 but the knobs and hollows thereof 
are fomewhat different. 
One JOYNT of the BJSCK-BONE of a WHALE. By 
Anatomijis called a Vertebra. one of thofe Parts 
or Joynts which anfwers to one Angle Rib on each fide. 
It weigheth Thirty pounds Haverdupois. In length, i. ei 
by the length of the Back-Bone, near < of a foot5 above 
a foot high 5 and three quarters of a yard broad, i. e. by 
the bredth of the Whale. The Hole in the middle of it, 
which the Marrow of the Back pafTeth through, near half 
a foot over. All its Knobs, are much alike thofe in Qua- 
cirupedes. 
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