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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- 

 jed. The moft eminent writers, as if deter- 

 mined in this particular to let us remain in 

 ** darknefs vifible," tell us no more than that 

 all their y?r/^ inquiries^ all their attejitive ajji- 

 duity and infpeBion^ will furnifh them with no 

 better information than *' they BELIEVE or 

 *' SU PECT, the lungs by fome means are 

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

 *' chefl too narrow for the hingsr If this 

 curious HYPOTHESIS can be once admitted, the 

 preternatural enlargement of the lungs is, by 

 iuch reafoning, confirmed a paradoxical natural 

 deformity. An attempt to eftablifh fo frail an 

 idea would be ridiculous in the extreme; for 

 horfes are in general fo little feen with external 

 deformities, that it would be a palpable proof 

 ofjierility in intelkB to fuppofe a conftant and 

 invariable deformity upon any part of the 

 vifcera-, particularly upon the fame in every 

 horfe labouring under this defefl, and the 

 ^very part fo immediately neceflary to all the 

 offices in life. It is an opinion I (hall never 

 accede to, but am inclined to believe, by 



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