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breast and legs are, therefore, deformed by callo- 

 sities ; the back is still more disfigured by one or 

 two bunches. The callosities, as well as the 

 bunches, are perpetuated by generation. As it is 

 obvious that the first deformity proceeds from the 

 constant practice of forcing these animals, from 

 their earliest age, to lie on their stomach, with their 

 limbs folded under the body; and in this situ- 

 ation to bear both the weight of their own bodies, 

 and that of the load laid on their backs, we ought 

 to presume that the bunch or bunches have also 

 originated from the unequal pressure of heavy 

 burthens, which ^\^ould iia^turall}^ make the flesh, 

 fat, and skin swell ; for tliese bunches are not 

 osseous, but composed of a fleshy substance re- 

 sembling a cow's udder. Hence the callosities 

 and bunches should be regarded equall}^ as de- 

 formities produced by continual labour and bodily 

 constraint; and though at first accidental and 

 individual, they aie now become permament, and 

 common to the whole species. We may likewise 

 presume that the bag which contains the v/ater, 

 and is only an appendix to the stomach, has been 

 produced by an unnatural extension of that vis- 

 cus. The animal, after sufirring thirst for a long 

 time, by taking in at once as much, and perhaps 

 more, water than the stomach could easily contain, 

 this membrane would be gradually extended and 

 dilated, as we have seen the stomach of a sheep 

 dilated in proportion to the quantity of its ali- 

 ment. In sheep fed with grain the stomach m 



