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in Animals of the (amc, kind may be feen 
in the following Table in Exper. VIII. Numb* 
i2. in which I have fee down the Weights of 
luoft of them, and alfo in different Columns, 
the Height to which the Blood rofe in Tubes 
fixed to the Veins and Arteries. 
4. 1 obferved here, as in the abovemetltion- 
cd Horfes, that when the Blood had fubfided 
a little in the Tubes which were fixed to the 
Arteries of thefe Dogs, it would, as in the 
Horfes, rife on a hidden confiderably on deep 
fighing; as alfo on prefling the Dogs Bellies 
hard with the Hand, the Blood would im- 
mediately rife about fix Inches, and fubfide as 
much, on taking off the Hand, and it was 
the fame on fevcral Repetitions. 
y. It may be objefted to this Method of ef- 
timating the Force of the Blood, that by thus 
fixing Tubes to thefe large Veins and Arteries, 
the Courfe of a confiderable Scream of Blood 
was for that time flopped j and that confequent- 
ly the Force of the Blood mufl be proportio- 
nably increafed in all the Veins or Arteries ; 
and therefore alfo in the Veins or Arteries to 
which the Tube is fixed. And doubtlefs in 
(bme degree it is fo. In the Sheep the left 
Carotide is nearly *^3 part of the right Caro- 
D tide 
