gured by Tho. Bartholine , was nothing elfe than a Tooth of the Cttus Denta-tus , or Sperma-Ceti-Whale. Nor is it long since, that the Bones of theFore-fin ofa Porpess or a fmall Whale, artificially joyned together, wereex-pos’d in London by way ofpublick Shew, as the Skeleton ora Giant’s Hand:For all Filh ofth eCetaceous or Whale-kind, have this Fin made up of justso many Ranges of Joynrs, as naturally answer our 5 Fingers, and all togetherdoös not a little rescmble aMan’sHand.

But the Prodigious large Os Frontts referv’d in the Mcdtcinc Scbool atLeyden, cannot be sulpected toappertain to any other Creature ihan a Man :For this Bone in a Man, is of so peculiar a Make from the Globoso stiape ofthe Head, that there is not to be found a Bone among all the Animals ofthe Creation, that bears any resemblance to its Figuro, if we except that ofa Monkey; but all this Genus being of a much smaller Size than a Man,gives us no Umbrage of Scruple. So that there is 110 room to doubt of itsbeing a true and genuine Part of a large Humane Animal ; as will moreclearly appear by comparing the neat Sketches diawn from the Bone itseif by Mr. Hugo Howard, with a common Os Frontis of the ordinary Sizein the following Figures ; where

Figure 1. shews the common Shape and Size of the Fore-head Boneof a Man of an ordinary Stature, with its Convex or out-side forward.ab c d e, The Line the Ceronal Suture makes with Indenturts, elegantlyexprest, going round the upper Edge of the Bone by which its joyned toboth the Offa Bregmatis or Verticis, e, The place where the Coronal andSagittal Sutures meer. f, The part to which the Boncs of the Nose are fa-llened. g g, The upper part of the Orbits of the Eyes. b b, The Holes inthe Bone over the Eyes, that give passage to the two large Branches ofNerves that supply the Frontal Muscle, and thosc of the Eye-brows. i i,The two Processes Or Protuberances that joyn with the first Bone of the up-per Jaw : thesebysome Accident were broken off the large Bone, and there-fore are not exprest in the 2. Fig. The mealure round the Ambit of the Cc-ronal Suture from a, to g, was iolnchesand ,4 otan Inch ; In this Bonefrom c, where the Coronal and Sagittal Sutures meet, tos, where the Bonesof the Nose are fastened, 4^ Inches; from b, drawing a transverso Linecrolsthe Forehead, to d, 6 Inches; the thickness of the Bone was about% of an Inch.

Figure 2. Represcnts the Gigantick Forehead Bone, exprest in the famePosture with the former, and drawn exactly to the tarne Proportion, abc d e,The Coronal Suture, in some places a little worn and defaced. c, Theplace where the Coronal and Sagittal Sutures meet. f, The part where theBones of the Nose were fastened. g g, The upper part of the Orbits of theEyes. bh, The two Holes for the Nerves that paß into the Museies of theEye-brows and the Frontal Muscle. The Measure round the Ambit of theCoronal Sucure in this Bone from a, to e, was about 21 Inches; from c, wherethe Sagittal and Coronal Surures meer, to /, where the Bones of the Nose arefastened, 9 Inches and One ioth ofan Inch; b, from, drawing a transverse Lineacrots the Forehead to d, 12 Inches , the thicknesi of the Bone, from oneTable to t'other, about j an Inch. B 2 Figure

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