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E X P L A N A T I O N OF THE TABLES. 165
T A B L E XXXIV.
J f ^ I G U R E firft of this table reprefents the fpinal marrow
and nerves in the tail of a fmall haddock, difleiled, and
magnified to four diameters.
FIG. n. Shews the natural fize of the taili
F I G . L
A The upper, and B the under part of the haddock.
C C C The bodies of the vertebrae.
D D The fpinal marrow, with the fpinal nerves iffuing from it.
Thefe nerves, as they proceed, form plexufes GG, which are covered by
fpheroidal bodies that adhere firmly to the nerves, and to each other. In the
fin of the tail the fpheroidal bodies graduaUy become lefs numerous, then
are feen fingle, or at a dillance from each other, with the nerve appearing
bare between them, as at HH, where the nerves are fupported on pins.
At laft, near the edges of the fin of the tail, where the nerves are divided
into fmall parts, the fpheroidal bodies are not found.
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