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for it is not so. They are covered again by 

 the skin, which is to be described in the next 

 chapter. Nor is this quite all. There is in 

 most persons a small quantity of fat, intermixed 

 with the muscles ; and in some persons a great 

 deal of it. This fat is found in the soft, white, 

 cellular substance which is placed everywhere 

 between the muscles, and the little bundles of 

 which they are made up. You will now be 

 able to understand and remember the meaning 

 of the word cellular, for it means made up of 

 cells, something like honey-comb ; and the fat 

 is deposited in these cells. Only a small quan- 

 tity of fat is necessary to health ; and when it 

 is found in unusually large quantities, in man or 

 in other animals, it shows that they are diseased. 



REFLECTIONS. Thus we see that the great 

 purposes which the muscles and tendons sub- 

 serve are, the filling up and beautifying of the 

 frame, and the motion of its parts and of the 

 whole. We should be more helpless than the 

 brutes are, if we had no muscles. Indeed, as 

 we could not move a finger without them, we 

 should be more miserable than any other ani- 

 mal ; for all animals have muscles even those 



