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verlion,) either for the love of knowledge, 

 or of mifchief, to fteal or lay hold of their 

 neighbours Dogs, in order to diffed: them. 

 We may hear them often difplaying their 

 fkill, with pert eloquence ; boafting of 

 their difcoveries In the circulation of the 

 blood, the contexture of the mufcles, the 

 progrefs of the nerves, veins, and arteries, 

 and learnedly difcanting on the glands or 

 ftrainers, the imperceptible duds of the 

 la(5teals, as well as the fpiral motion of the 

 bowels. To fuch I recommend a little 

 farther and more particular enquiry into the 

 fpecial formation of thefe creatures. Let 

 them employ their knives, their glafTes, 

 and their pens, to dcfcribe to us ignorant 

 Country 'Squires the organs of found, as 

 well as fcent, in this domeftic animal we 

 iid much delight in. I leave to thefe curious 

 Vfrtuoii to delineate the lamina of the 

 Beagles nofes, with thofe innumerable ol- 

 fa<5tory tubes and pores of all lizes and'' 

 figures, that are fpread over or pafs through 

 them. Let them nicely invefllgate thofe 

 minute fibres which compofe their lunfs, 

 trachea, lips, and palate; thofe veiTels 

 G 2 which 



