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4. And an Ox's Pulfe beating, or thiy 
Ventricle contradling 38 times in a Minute, 
that is 2180 times in an Houtj then a Co- 
lumn fo many times 8.1 inches, or 18468 
Inches long, or 1J39 Feet will pafs in an 
Hour. 
5. But each Sy/lok of the Ventricle be- 
ing performeciin one third of that time, the 
Velocity of the Blood in each Syjlole will be 
thrice as great, viz. 4(317 Feet, i, e. 0*874 
of a Mile in an Hour, or 76.^5 Feet in a 
Minute. 
6 . This Venrricrle throwing out n.j cu- 
bic Inches at a time, will in thirty eight 
Syjioles, which it performs in a Minute, 
throw out 18.14 Pounds, and in an Hour 
and twenty eight Minutes, it will have thrown 
out 1600 Pounds of Blood, a Qiiantity equal 
to the Weight of the Ox. But this Ox be- 
ing fat a Qiiantity of Blood equal to his 
Weight mufl: be longer in paffing through its 
Heart, than in the lean Horfe, Exper. III. 
Numb. 27. for the Fat of Animals has little 
or no Blood in it, whence lean Animals have 
ceteris paribus much more Blood in them 
tlian tat ones. 
Experi- 
