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sharp bone fastn'd to the Head. Tooth-less in the upper Jaw, as being of the ruminating kind. Very cloven footed; and smal-hoofed before, but thick-flesh't on the hinder parts of the leggs, like a Camel.
As to the inward parts, it had a Liver shaped like that of a mans, divided into two Lobes; and in the hollow part of the Liver there were two Lymppatick branches, which fastn'd the trunk of the Vena porta to the superior Orifice of the Stomach. The substance of this Liver plainly appeared to them glandular, each grain of it being pierced, as they thought, in the midle, by reason of a little red cleft they had, whence issued blood, when pressed. And the cause, why these glandules seldome appeare vnsevered one from another, may be, that when the animal is in health they are spungy and fill'd out with bood, which they are not, when it is sick, or emaciated, &c.
III. LABYRINTHUS ALGEBRÆ, Auth. JOH JAC. FERGUSON. Printed at the Hague in 4°. 1667.
WHat we mention'd in Numb. 46. p. 931. sect. 8. about new methods, pretended by some to be found out for giving the Roots of all Cubick and Bi-quadraticke Æquations, albeit those Roots are Fractions or Surds, Binomials or Residuals; We find since to be already accomplished by this Dutch Writer; upon the Cursory perusal of whose Book we take the first part of it to be, as follows.
1. He shows, how to extract the Square and Cubick Roots out of Binomiall and Resiudal Numbers, as a medium, which he afterwards hath occasion to use.
2. Then proceeds to give one general Rule for Ending the Roots of all Quadratick Æquations, and commends the worth of his method from the easiness, although you be incumbred with Fractions or great Numbers either in the Coefficients or Absolute.
3. He gives one General Rule (where others make more Cases of it) for finding the Roots of all Cubick Æquations, in which the Second term or, Quadratick species is wanting, and then shows, how all other Cubick Æquations, wherein it is present,may
