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e. The beginning of the left meatus cut opea.
/ , The feptum between the conch« or external cars.
F I G . 3.
1, The Giout.
2, 2, The eyes, in which a digitated portion of the iris is imperfe£lly feen;
which, like a curtain, may darken the pupil.
3 , 3 , Twp large paffages into the throat.
4, 5, Two fmall holes, which make the beginning of the paflage into the
ear.
6,7, At 6 a probe is put in; at 7 an incifion is made, where the end of that
probe is direded outwards and downwards; by which means a large cavity and
winding paiTage from it are feen, refembling the fcapha and concha of our ear.
A thick membrane feparates the two conchas from each other.
8, A fmall hole, capable of receiving a briitle; which is the beginning of a
canal that refembles our meatus auditorius, and leads into the internal ear.
g. The centre at which all the bundles of fmall mucous dufts begin on the
left fide.
10, II , 12, 13,14, The bundles of mucous duds in their courfe to diftant
parts of the furface of the body.
1 5 , 1 5 , 1 5 , &c. The open mouths of the mucous duds, with probes put into
many of them.
1 6 , 1 7 , A large nerve, dividing into a great number of fmaller nerves; moil
o f which are fpent upon the ihut beginnings of the mucous duds.
Thefe fmall nerves are white arid opaque till they are conneded to the beginnings
of the mucous duds, when the nerves become tranfparent Hke thefe duds,
and fo difappear.
G K H, Show the beginning of the duds G K at H, rcprefcnted in the fore
view of the large mucous duds Tab. VI.
I, Likewife reprefents the fame dud as the fore view did; being feen on both
fides from the thinnefs and tranfparency of the dried fnout of the fiih.
O, Reprefents a large branch refleded from H, upwards and backwards, and
terminating by half a dozen fmall branches, which have mouths opening upon
the furface of the ikin at the fore part of the orbit.
L , Is the mucous dud marked with the letter L in the fore view, and which
is here feen refleded and fending off at M M N about ten fmall branches, which
difcharge themfelves upon the furface of the ikin.
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