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160 EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES.
T A B L E
T N this table, the membrane lining the hnman cochlea, with
the neiTes from the portio mollis of the feventh pair, are
reprefented with the utmoft accuracy.
IG. Reprefents the membrane of the cochlea, and the branch of the
portio moUis fent to it, of their natural fize; And
IG. Reprefents the fame parts magnified t o fix diameters.
A The branch of the portio molhs which is fent to the cochlea, compofcd
oi^many bmidles of threads.
B B Part of it lacerated by the fliaking of the preparation in the Hquor in
which it had been preferved, for upwards of twenty years, before a
drawing of it was made.
C Some of the fafcicuU running upon the membrane at the firft turn of the
cochlea.
D E F The double edge of the membrane of the different turns of the
cochlea.
G The ape.x of the cochlea.
H A large branch of the nerve which paffes through the centre of the modiolus,
and from that is continued to the apex of the cochlca where it
irforms a circlc L
IG. III. Reprefents part of the branches of the portio mollis, dillributed
on the firil turn of the cochlea, magnified t o fix diameters.
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