Note Book VI. Chap. 5. Note (b) — BOOK VI.

[b] The Tortoise hath three Ventricles, as the Parisian Academists in their Memoirs affirm. Besides these two Ventricles [before spoken of] which were in the hinder Part of the Heart, which faceth the Spine; there was, say they, a third in the Fore-part, inclining a little towards the Right-side, &c. Memoirs, &c. p. 259. But Mr. Bussiere charges this as a Mistake in those ingenious Gentlemen, and asserts there is but one Ventricle in the Tortoise’s Heart. See his Description of the Heart of the Land Tortoise, in Philos. Transact. Nᵒ. 328.