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tent judge of the ftrudure of eyes ; but if 

 common reafon may be attended to, (which 

 every man has a right to offer,) it is natural 

 to conjecflure, night or day is indifferent to 

 the Hare, and that fhe only prefers the for- 

 mer to reUeve in, it being the mofl peace- 

 able time, and freefl from danger. The 

 difadvantage of wanting quick fight before, 

 in my opinion, may chiefly be accounted for 

 from the fituation of the eyes being fixed in 

 the head, at a diftance far from each other, 

 like Horfes j and to fee forward perfed:, re- 

 quires fome fuch contrivance as the eye- 

 leathers that Waggoners have at their horfes 

 collars, the better to occafion the eyes be- 

 ing direded more forward than backward ; 

 for as they are formed to turn in the fock- 

 ets all ways, forward to the nofe, upward, 

 downward, or back toward the fhoulders, 

 it needs no great ^nd of philofophy to 

 judge, that by fo milch as the eyes are turn-r 

 ed out of the centre of light to look up- 

 ward, fuch a proportion is wanting to fee 

 downward ; and fo much as they are flrain- 

 ed toward the nofe to fee forward, fo much 

 is required for light backward, fuppofing 

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