reafon that they hid theailelves among the other part^ 
of the woolly fiibftances. 
From the loregoing Obfervation, I have been doubt- 
f al whether the Arteries and Veins were not in this place 
joned together, vi^. whether A were not an Artery, and 
G. a Vein, for among all the Experience that I have had 
of the blood-veffels I never perceived fuch a probabili- 
ty of an Jnafiomofs. For in other places the Arteries 
being varioufly diffeminated for the noiirifliment of the 
parts, the veins are io likewife , for the carrying the 
blood back again into the heart: but in this place the 
Arteries going no further than the hollow of the Guts, 
feem to have no other bufinefs then to empty themfelves 
into the Veins. 
Thefe obfervations alfo make me more then ever re- 
jed: the Opinion, that the Extremities of the Lacfieal and 
LimphatickVeffels have mouths or openings,whereby they 
receive and take in the Chyle out of the Gots/or I am per- 
fwaded that the extremities of the LaBece in the Guts are 
as wellcovered with theirCoat orMembrane in that place, 
as in other parts of the body, which neverthelefs will not 
hinder the food from paffing out of the Guts. For let 
Fig- s* S.C D. E, be the root of a tree, the nourifti- 
ment that this Root receives out of the Earth.ftiall pafs no 
eafier thro the Extremities J, and E. than thro any other 
place about O. or C. whichis of the fame bignefs. For 
example, Ihave feen thefmallRoots of a Vine an hun- 
dred times thinner than an hair of my head, their far- 
ther ends ji, and E, take up a place of the one thoufand 
part of the bignefs of a (and. Now if a place be no bigger 
thanthiSj themoifture or nounlliment of the Tree, will 
as well pafs thro any part of the Bark or wood oi the Root, 
as thro the places E. So that a thin capillary Root may 
as well receive the nourifliment at any other place as at 
the end. And as the Arteries, whofe Coats are made up 
of a thrcddy fiibftance, can ftraiu the biood thro them, 
( as 
