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 also of it self, for many houses after it is cut into quarters; and the very Joynts oi the Bones of the Shoulders and Legs (answering our Omo-plate and thigh, yet within the Shell) have their motion; and even though you prick only the Fat of it. But if you place these parts of the Tortoise in the Sun, they presently die. The Legs die as soon, in a manner, as cut off.

7. The Eggs of Crocodils and Allgaters are little bigger then a Turky's. I thought to bring one to England, but it was lost. I never broke any to see the Yolk and White; but the Shell is as firme and like in shape to a Turky's, but not spotted. I inquired into the Stone in the Stomach of a Cayman or Crocodile, and I found by the inquiry of a very observing Gentleman there, that they were nothing but several Stones, which that Creature swallows for digestion. He took out of one a piece of a Rock as big as his head: out of others he had taken 16 or 20 lesser. None regards them much there, whatever Monardes relateth.

8. I could not hear of any Stones found in the Gall of the Hogs there; but 'tis usual to find little stones in their Bladder of several sizes, but the shapes of them (none weighing a scruple) were angular, and pointed with five angles.

9. De Laet is in the right as to his description of Manati-Stone; into the nature of which Fish I would willingly have made Inquiries, had I had health to goe, where they are catched. But he is out in his Lapis Tuberorum. For though a Tiburon or Shark be all one, and differ from a Manati or Sea-Cow; yet, by his leave, though that same be a kind of friable calx, when it is brought hither; yet when 'tis first taken out, it is not so, but a white substance near approaching to the nature of any Brain, and encompassed in a Gelly transparent. The Gelly dries all away, as it is expos'd to the Sun; and the white substance dries into the body, he speaks of. If my memory faile me not extreamly, it is taken out of two places over each eye; and both being usually by Seamen put into the same paper together, to dry, pass for one. That creature hath no bone in his back, as vast as his strength is; onely in his Head there are bones. His Jawes are Gristles; and he hath rowes of teeth, which are bones like Lancets, and moveable in him, to erect, or lay flat; and multiply to 3, or 4, or 5, (perhaps more) as he growes in years, His Rh