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FIG. IV. Reprefents fome of the branches in Fig. III. magnified to about
thirty diameters. In both figures, fimilar parts are diftinguiflied by
the fame letters.
A The trunk of the branch of the portio molhs which fupplies the coch-
Ica.
BB Part of it lacerated.
K A branch of an artery croffing the nerves.
CC The fafcicuU of nervous fibres difpofed in a regular manner, and beginning
to fpread out on the membrane of the cochlea.
DD An elegant plexus which they form.
E E F F The plexus continued; but the ftrufture and connedion of parts
is feen here much lefs difliinftly, not only from the nerves dividing into
much fmaller parts, but that thefe, witli the membrane, become fuddenly
much lefs white, or more pellucid.
G The edge of the membrane of the cochlea which is the moil diftant from
the root of the lamina fpirahs.
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