COMPARATIVE SCELETONS &c. 
TO THE READER. 
The frontice-piece is the fceleton of a young buck, flopping fud- 
denly and turning. 
The head-piece is the fceleton of a dog as he lies flecping. 
The tail-piece is the fceleton of a thornback a little dried, and fo 
carefully performed, that there is not one rib or joynt more or lefs than 
in the life. 
THE INTRODUCTION. 
The frontice-piece is the fceleton of a monkey, fitting on the flump 
of a tree. 
The head-piece reprefents the three famous fceletons in Vefalius, fo 
juftly admired for their attitude, and the great tafte in which they are 
drawn. The artifl has defigned thefe in their general outlines, not in the 
proportions of fceletons, but of whole human figures, conlequently much 
too broad for their heights; which, though produ&ive of many errors in 
particular parts, I am inclined to think, that to thofe who have not been 
converfant with fceletons, they look much the better for it. The firft 
ftands on one fide of the monument, and leans on the other, which mull be 
the diameter of the whole monument out of the upright; and all of them 
are drawn from fceletons whofe bones were very ill put together. 
The tail-piece is the fceleton of a crane, with the fceleton ofafifli: 
This kind of birds living on fifli, their legs are made very long to fland 
in waters, and the whole Iceleton as light as may be, they having no great 
occafion for flrength. 
CHAPTER I. 
The frontice-piece is the bones of the head of a man-tyger. 
The head-piece is the bones of the head ofabull, the grinding tooth 
of an elephant, and the bones of the head of afea-horfe, all done to the 
fame feale. Here in one view may be feen the different perfections of the 
two gravers. 
The tail piece is the fcull and horns of a ram. 
