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T A B L E XXXI I I .
' T ' H I S table reprefents the nerves of the fin of a haddock,
with fpheroidal bodies connefted to them, magnified to
fix diameters.
FIG. I.
AB Two nerves which join and feparate again, or form a plexus, which is
covered by fpheroidal bodies, adhering ctofely to it.
B About the middle of the fin thefe fpheroidal bodies are not contiguous
to each other, but between them the pure nerve is feen.
C Near the e.\tremity of the fm, where the nerves are fuhdivided into
fmall parts, the fpheroidal bodies are wantmg.
Fio. II. Shews the fpheroidal bodies feparatcd from the nerve and from
each other, and magnified to fix diameters.
They confift: of a tough tranfparent membrane or Ikin, containing a
tranfparent vifcid hquor, in the centre of which one or two white, or
opake, ferpentine bodies are lodged. Thefe ferpentine bodies are feen
veiy diilinilly, not only when the nerve is recent, but after drying it.
FIG. III. Reprefents the fpheroidal veficles, loofened a little from each
other by difleclion, and magnified to fix diameters.
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