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taken place, no IMPROVEMENTS or DIS- 

 COVERIES have been made that can at all 

 elucidate to a certainty the opinions long fince 

 gone forth and communicated upon this fub- 

 jecc. The moft eminent writers, as if deter- 

 mined in this particular to let us remain in 

 *' darknefs vifible," tell no more than that 

 all theiry?//^ inquiries^ all their attentive ajji- 

 diiity and hype.^ion, will furnifli them with no 

 better information than " they BELIEVE or 

 << SUSPECT the lungs, by fome means, are 

 *' too large for the cavity of the cheft, or the 

 ** cheil: too narrow for the lungs,'* If this 

 curious HYPOTHESIS can be once admitted, the 

 preternatural enlargement of the lungs is, by 

 fuch reafoning, confirmed 2l paradoxical natural 

 deformity. An attempt to eflablifh fo frail an 

 idea would be ridiculous in the extreme; for 

 horfes are in general fo little feeu with external 

 deformities, that it would be a palpable proof 

 oijierility in intellect to f appofe a conflant and 

 invariable deformity upon any part of the 

 vifcera ; particularly upon the fame in every 

 horfe labouring under this deie.fl, and the 

 '•ocry part fo immediately neceffary to all the 

 offices in life. It is an opinion I ihall never 

 iicpede to, but am inclined to believe, by 



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