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does not seem granted to the brute creation, it may 

 not be going too far to conclude, that the want of 

 speech in the Orang and other animals, with a 

 corporeal organization so similar to that of man, is 

 wholly to be attributed to the absence of the facul- 

 ty of abstraction. 



Chylopoctic Viscera, fyc. 



The upper part of the alimentary canal has 

 nothing peculiar, except, that the pharynx seems 

 rather more contracted and corrugated than in man. 

 The stomach resembles the human in form ; having 

 its great curvature toward the left side. Its pylo- 

 rus seems placed somewhat lower than in the hu- 

 man body. The stomach measures (when distend- 

 ed,) from the cardia to the pylorus, along its great 

 curvature, 14 inches, and 5 inches along its superior 

 edge. It might contain about a pint and a-half of 

 fluid. The intestines were covered by a very thin 

 omentum, which scarcely contained any fat. 



The position of the small intestines resembles 

 what is perceived in man. The biliary and pancre- 

 atic ducts, penetrate the duodenum nearly at the 

 same place as in the human subject. In our spe- 

 cimen, there were a great number of very large 

 worms, the Ascaris lumbricoides, in the upper part 

 of the intestines. They completely distended the 

 duodenum ; and three of them had penetrated by 

 the ductus communis choledochus, and hepatic duct, 



