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accident, being left at a Tavern door, where ftood a 
TubofOyfters: And fince bath frequently done it, 
whenever they were offered him. Now Gajfendus ob- 
ferves, that Children from whom he thinks we may 
better take the hjiwcfs of Nature, than from our Ap- 
perites when depraved by Cuftome) are much fonder of 
Fruit than ot any Flejh that is offered them 3 and there- 
fore he fuppofes it more Natural to them. 
The hftunce you give,wherein the ftrufture of th^Inte- 
ftijies ofCarnivorous Animals is different from that inMen,. 
is, that the former want a Colon whereas in Men there 
is a very large one, which is not to be obferved but in 
fuch Animals 'as live upon Fruits, B^oots, Herbs, 
What therefore you propofe to me, is to confider. Whe- 
ther it does generally hold (^or how far forth') that Animals 
that art not Carnivorous have fuch a Colon, Q or fomevphat 
equivalent J and thofe that are Carnivormis have it not- 
I fhall begin with thofe Animah that are Carnivorous^ 
and have no Colon^ or large Cmcum, For though they 
may have the Appendicula Vermiformis ( as fome Anato- 
mies call it ) yet if that is not extended or filled with 
the/^^<:e/, which the other Guts contain, I think it not 
properly to be efteemed as a diftinft Gut, or to come i 
into that number, fince here it does not perform the j 
office of a Gut, in containing the Food or Excrement. ■ 
So, in a Man, in Dogs, and other Animals, when it is ! 
thus contraded, I exclude it out of the number of the ■ 
Intejlines showgh by ufe and cuftome (hut I fee no reafon 
for it ) 'tis commonly reckoned one of the Intefiina 
craffa. 
Animals therefore that have no Colon^ or large G^r«;K^, 
though fome of them have this Appendicula V^rmiformis^ 
and are Carnivorous^ I reckon. 
I. The D^^'^/W^ under which, befide their own 
fpecies^ may be included the Fox^ ih^Wolf, thc Coati 
Mondi, the Badger^ the Otter, &c. 
2. The 
