ANATOMY OF THE PORBEAGLE SHARK. 



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forcibly that unerring skill by which the Divine artificer adapts everything in 

 such a manner only as shall be most conducive to the wants and preservation 

 of the individual. 



Directing our attention then to the second figure, we observe the gall 

 bladder, (d,) situated, as we should anticipate, immediately at the place where 

 the two lobes of the liver are united; at this spot also the gall duet and 

 the duct from the liver, {hepatic,) coalesce, and the common duct thus formed 

 descends alongside the stomach, as indicated by the letter (e,) emptying its 

 contents, the bile, into the small intestine, to be more fully noticed presently. 

 We have not space sufficient to point out the vascular arrangement of these 

 organs, but it may be observed that a group of vessels, marked (f) in the 

 engraving, constitute a remarkable anastomosis ^plexus mirabilis' between the 

 hepatic veins and certain arterial branches, (cceJiac,) the blood of which being 



