COMPARATIVE SCELETONS &c. 
CHAPTER II. 
The frontice-piece: The uppermoft figure is the bones of the head 
of a pike; which being loofcly connected, and the lower jaw compofed 
with an additional bone on each fide, like the jaw of a viper, their jaws 
are thereby capable of being vaftly extended when they fwallow their 
prey, which they do whole, and oftentimes things of greater diameter 
than themfelves. The reft of thefe figures are bones of filh from the Weft 
Indies: The firft are the upper and lower jaw of a fiftt remarkable for the 
number and lhape of its teeth; the next on the left hand is an upper jaw 
of a filh with teeth in the roof of the mouth, and in the lower jaw are 
rows of teeth one below another: The other figures are the upper and 
half a lower jaw and the tongue of another filh, all as it were ftudded 
with hard bones to grind their food. 
The head-piece is the fceleton of a cat frighted, at the fceleton of 
a dog. 
The tail-piece is the fceleton of a lizard, which is a perfect mix¬ 
ture of the ferpentine kind and quadrupede. 
CHAPTER III. 
The frontice-piece is the fceleton of a water tortoife laid upon its 
back. 
The head-piece is the fceleton of a crocodile. 
The t a i l-pi ece is the fceleton of an eagle, or a bird of that kind; this 
bird is every where formed for ftrength: before it, is the fceleton of a vi¬ 
per, in which every fingle rib and bone is exprefied. 
CHAPTER 1III. 
The frontice-piece is the fceleton of a bear, in which is remarkable 
the great ftrength of the jaws, and the neck, and the fore feet, and the 
fhortncfs of the uppermoft ribs, which makes them ftrong for their fore 
feet to gripe any thing againft. This fceleton being put together with 
ftiff wires, I could not alter it into a propcrer pofture. 
The head-piece is the fceleton of a rabbit whofe bones are fo con- 
ftructed as to bring the hind feet eafily under the center of gravity of the 
whole body, while they fcratch their holes; and for this reafon the fore 
