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or DLSCOVEllIES have been made that 

 can at all [elucidate to a certainty the opi- 

 nions lono' since mne forth and cominuni- 

 cated upon this subject. The most eminent 

 writers, as if determined in tliis particular 

 to let us remain in '' darkness visible/' tell 

 no more than that all their strict inquiries, all 

 their attentive assiduity and inspection, will 

 furnish them with no better information, 

 '' they BELIEVE or SUSPECT the lungs, 

 *' by some means, are too large for the ca- 

 *' vity of the chest, or the chest too narroxv 

 " for the lungs'' If this cwrio^^^ hypothesis 

 can be once admitted, the preternatural en- 

 largement of the lungs, is, by such reasoning, 

 confirmed a paradoxical natural deformity. An 

 attempt to establish so frail an idea would 

 be ridiculous in the extreme ; for horses are 

 in general so little seen with external defor- 

 mities, that it would be a palpable proof of 

 sterility in intellect to suppose a constant and 

 invariable deformity upon any part of the 

 viscera ; particularly upon the same in every 

 horse labouring under this defect, and the 

 very, part so immediately necessary to all the 

 offices in life. It is an opinion I shall never 

 accede to, but am inclined to believe, by 



