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Mr. Hunter seems to have put us into 

 a right path, and every step we take 

 our prospects become more enlarged and 

 distinct, and we evidently approximate to 

 the ultimate object which we hare in view. 



Whoever duly reflects on the extent of 

 human knowledge and power, cannot but 

 feel an interest in anatomical enquiries; 

 since he must perceive that it is by means 

 of the organization of the body, the mind 

 acquires all its information, and executes 

 all its purposes. When, however, we 

 engage in anatomical enquiries, we find so 

 great a diversity of structure in the 

 different parts of the body ; so great a va- 

 riety of expedients for effecting certain pur- 

 poses, all so simple in their nature, yet so 

 adequate to their intended design, that ana- 

 tomy becomes highly interesting from the 

 curiosity it excites, the knowledge it im- 



