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withflanding all this, Dr.Tyfon thinks we may as well argue, that 
becaufe the neat-kind, the ftag-kind, ^c. that live on herbage, 
have four llomachs, therefore thofe that have not four, were not 
defigned by nature to be graminivorous; now the horfe-kind, ^c, 
has but one flomach, and yet their food is gralsj and the cafe is 
here the more remarkable, becaule the ftomach is a part more 
principally concerned in digefting the food 5 yet we oblerve, even 
in animals, that live upon the fame Ibrt of food, that their flo- 
machs arc very different; one would therefore be more apt to 
think, that for digefting the variety of food, the organ, which is 
to perform it, fhould be different too; yet we find the llomachs 
of animals, that live upon different food are very much alike; if 
therefore, we cannot draw a conclufion froni the ftruflure of the- 
ilomach, what food is moft natural to an animal, much lels, -can 
we from the CohfTy or the Ceecum, being parts of the alimentary 
du6t, that are remote from the ftomach ; which feem to be only 
a common ftiore, for the reception of the F^ces : Nature ob- 
ferves great variety, in the formation of the ftru6ture of this ali- 
mentary du6l in different animals ; and even where we may ob- 
ferve much the fame fort of food, yet we do not always find the 
fame ftru^lure, tho' her intendment be the fame in all, viz. to 
digeft the food, diftribute the chyle, and ejeft the F^ces : Since 
man therefore hath all manner of teeth, fit for the preparation of 
all forts of food, before it be conveyed to the ftomach, and this 
laft organ is alfo adapted to digeft all forts of food; Dr. Tyfon 
rather thinks, that nature intended he fhould live upon all ; or 
at leaft not deny him any, or ftint him to one fort only ; as in the 
text already quoted. Gen. ix. v. 3. To give fome inftances in 
brutes, where it does not hold, that all carnivorous animals have 
no Colon or C^cumy the Opoffum has a long Colon, tho* not cellu- 
lated, and a large Cacumy that receives all the fasces, as they pafs 
downwards; yet this animal feeds upon poultry, birds and other 
flefli ; on the other hand the hedge-hog, that hath no Colon or C<£cum, 
and therefore by Dr. Wallis's rule, Ihould be carnivorous, feeds 
only on roots; hogs likewife, that have both a Colon &v\d Caecum, 
will feed greedily upon fleih, tho' their ordinary food be of ano- 
ther kind ; as alfo a rat and moufe, that have a large Ccecumy 
but no Colony ked upon bacon, as well as bread and cheele ; there- 
fore Dr. Wallis's obfervation as to brutes, tho' it n\ay hold for 
the moft part true, yet it is not univerfal. . 
Dr. JVallis agrees in thefe fentiments, and is inclined to think, 
that all nations, both before and after the flood, have ufed to feed 
on flefh duly prepared; tho' on the other hand he thinks, that raw 
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