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affording them free refpiration : and no doubt thefe additional 
-noftrils are thrown open when they are hard run''. Mr. Ray 
obferved that, at Malta, the owners flit up the noftrils of fuch affes 
as were hard worked : for they, being naturally ftrait or fmall, 
did not admit air fufficient to ferve them when they travelled, or 
laboured, in that hot climate. And we know tlmt grooms, and 
gentlemen of the turf, think large noftrils neceflary, and a perfec- 
tion, in hunters and running horfes. 
O.ppian, the Greek poet, by the following line, fcems to have 
had fome notion that ftags have four fpiracula : 
" TsTpaJf/xoi 'pits?, WKType; wvoniiri JiatAoi." 
" Quadrifidx nares, quadruplkes ad refpirationem canales." 
Opp. Cyn. Lib. ii, I. i8r. 
Writers, copying from one another, make AriJIotle fay that 
goats breathe at their ears ; whereas he allerts juft the con- 
trary: — " Aax^^jwi/ yx^ oux «A5j6?i Af.J'fi, (p^jUm? ix,vxmuv rix; ociyxi 
*' xam TO, wTfli." " Alcmaon does not advance what is true, when 
he avers that goats breathe through their ears." — Hiftory of 
Animals. Book I. chap. xi. 
" In anfwer to this account, Mr. Pennant fent me the following curious and pertinent 
reply. " I was much furprifed to find in the antelope fomething analogous to what you 
" mention as fo remarkable in deer. This animal alfo has a long flit beneath each eye, 
" which can be opened and (hut at pleaflire. On holding an orange to one, the creature 
" made a» much ufe of thofe orifices as of his nollriJs, applying them to the fruit, and 
feeming to fmell it; through them." 
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