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OF  THE  FOURFOOTED  BEASTS.
        CHAPTER             XI.
   Of the bonsc of the Civet-cat.
J T remains now to treat of the Sceleton of
   this beaft prepared by mee, which condu-
   ceth much to the discovery of it's nature;
   to know the place, feat, and pofture of the
bones, and to fee wherein it agrees with, or
differs from the Dogs, Wolfe, Fox, Cat, and
other beafts.
  When in all other beafts the number of the
turning-joynts of the back-bone is not the
fame, in our fweet Hyxna were reckoned 49.
but in the Sow, and Hedge-hogge but foure,
in the Horfe, and Camels fifteen, fix in the
neck, as in Dogs; in the breaft twelf, after the
ufuall way; feven others on the back, as in the
Dog. But the Hedge-hogge hath eight ; the
Cony ten. Finally the tayl confits of foure
and twenty fmall bones.  In a Dog I told but
fifteen. in thejaws were fix fharp cutters on
each fide, but very finall, as in the Cat-pard,
and in Dogs.
  Next ftand the dog-teeth, in bigneffe, and
flnpe as the dogs: Then grinders on either
fide fix; the firit whereof next the grinders,
but finall, as the laft, faving one, is the greateft
of all. The fhape of the whole feemed to re-
femble a dog, and fuch kind of beafts neareft.
And fo much briefly of the Anatomy. Let
the reader excufe us, that wee give no ac-
count of the inwards, fince fuch was the ftink
of the putrified bowells, that the offence fo
nauseated, and turned the ftomacks of my
fchollers then prefent, in Dr. Dominick Pana-
rolus, who cut it up, and alfo in the byftanders,
that it fcarce fuffered us to make that fpeedy
diffedion.
F I N I S.
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