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not admit airsufficient to serve them when 

 they travelled, or laboured in that hot 

 climate. And we know that grooms, and 

 gentlemen of the turf, think large nostrils 

 necessary, and a perfection, in hunters and 

 running horses. 



Oppian, the Greek poet, by the follow- 

 ing line, seems to have had some notion 

 that stags have four spiracula : 



" TtTfoiSv(ji.oi pni^y zjKTvfis vjtoivo'i oixvXoi" 

 " Quaclrifidoe nares, quaclrupliccs ad respirationeni 

 " canales." 



Opp. Cyn. Lib. ii. 1. 181. 



Writers copying from one another, make 

 Aristotle say that goats breathe at their ears ; 

 whereas he asserts just the contrary : — 



" Tuq xiyxq xurx rtx uru.'' " AlcnidOfl does 



** not advance what is true, when he avers 

 ** that goats breathe through their ears." 

 History of animals. Book 1. chap. xi. 



