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of the Water, they Breatb fomewhat Offner. If you .Hurt them on Shore,as they lie on their Backs, the Tears will Trickle from their Eycs. Youmay keep them out of the Water 20 Days and more, and yet they will beso Fat as to be fitting Meat, provided you give them Twice a Day abouthalf a Pint of Salt-water. The Fat that is about their Guts is Tettow,though that of the Body be Green. The Head being Cut off, Dyes instant-ly; and if you take out the Heart, the Motion continues not long. Butany Quantity of the Flejh will Move, if Prick’d, and also of it scis, sormany Hours aster it is C ut into Quarten ; and the very Jojnts of the Bonesof the Sbeuldtri and Ltggs (anfwering our Omo-plate and Thigb, yet with-in the Shell) have their Motion , and even though you Prick only the Fat ofit. But if you place thesc Parts of the Tortotfi in the Sun, they Prescntly.Dye. The Leggs Dye as soon, in a mannet, as Cut off.

The Eggs of Crocodsles and Alligators are little bigger than a Turke/s -The Shell is as Firm, and like in Shape, to a Turkefs, but not Spotted. Ienquir’d into the Stone in the Stomachos a Cayman or Crocodile , and l foundby the Enquiry of a very observing Gentleman there, that they were no-thing but several Sroaes, which that Creature Swallows for Digestion. Hetook out of one a piece of a Rock as Big as his Head: out of others he hadtaken 1 6 or 20 L^fler. Noneregards them much there, whatever Monar-

des relateth.

I could not hear of any Stones found in the Gatt of the Hcgs there; but'cis Usual to find little Stones in their Bladder of several Sizes, but theShapes of them (none weighing a Scruple) were Angular, - and Pointedwith 5 Angles.

De Laet is in the right as to his Description of the Manati-Stone.But he is out in his Lapis Tiburonum: For though a Ttburon or Shark be alione, and Differ from a Manati, or Sea-Cow : yet, by his lea ve, thoughthat fame be a kind of Friahle Calx , when it is brought Hither, yetwhen it is First taken out, it is not so, but a Wbitt S übst ance , near approach-ing to the Nature of any Brain , and encompaß’d in a TransparentGelly. The Gelly Dries all away, as it is expos’d to the Sun : and theWhite Substante Dries into the Body, he speaks os. If my Mtmory failme not extremely, it is taken out of T wo places over eachEye; and bothbeing ufually by Seamen put into the fame Paper together, to Dry, paßfor One. That Creature hath no Bone in his Back, as vast as his Strengrhis; only in his Head there are Bones. His Jawt are GristUs ; and he hathRows of Tetth, which are Bones like Lancets, 'and Moveable in him, toErect, or lay Flat; andMultiply to 3, or 4, or 5 (perhaps more) as heGrows in Years. His Back? bone is all Grißly (and so are his Ribbs ) yetDivided inio Vertebra. The Seamen ufually Cut them into Wallung* St avet.They and the Dolpkin Swim Falser than any Ship Saileth : So do theSpantßi- Macearel also.

Civet-Cats, if you do not give them Drink at all, they will not Dye ina longer time than a Month. But if they Drink once a Month , they willyield more Civet, as 1 WFS told; and so if they be Fed with Fi(h. Yet

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