SECT. V. OF FISHES.
THe RIB of a TRITON or MAREMAN. About the same length with that of a Mans, but thicker and stronger; and nothing near so much bended. The Fish to which it belonged, was taken near Brasile. Of this kind, Wormius, in his Musaeum, gives us divers Relations, toge∣ther with the Descriptions of several Species. See also Joh. de Laet. a 1.1 of the same. And Barlaeus, who saith, That in Brasile he is called Ypupiapra.
A BONE said to be taken out of a MAREMAIDS HEAD. It is in bigness and shape not much unlike that called Lapis Manati; but the knobs and hollows thereof are somewhat different.
One JOYNT of the ••••CK-BONE of a WHALE. By Anatomists called a Vertebra. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 one of those Parts or Joynts which answers to one single Rib on each side. It weigheth Thirty pounds Haverdupoi•• In length, i. e. by the length of the Back-Bone, near ¼ of a foot; above a foot high; and three quarters of a yard broad, i. e. by the bredth of the Whale. The Hole in the middle of it, which the Marrow of the Back passeth through, near half a foot over. All its Knobs, are much alike those in Qua∣drupedes.