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the fibres of this membrane, and the nervous, are com- 

 posed those pointed knots, which are, both in substance 

 and shape, altogether like to those upon the tongue. 

 Whence I doubt not, but that the said three ventricles, 

 as they have a power of voluntary motion, so, likewise, 

 that they are the seat of taste, and as truly the organs 

 of that sense, as is the tongue itself." 



Skull of Domestic Ox, from a specimen in the Royal College of Surgeons. 



The mouth of animals of the Ox Tribe contains, when 

 full, thirty-two teeth. Six molars in each jaw, above, 

 below, and on either side; and eight incisors in the 



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