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wns there fo much as a fingle hair to be found in 
the meconium j for this plain reafon, if I judge 
right, to wit, becaufe they had not got hairs upon 
their bodies of long enough continuance to become 
loofe, and float in the liquor arnnii. 
But as opportunities of coming at feetus’s of this 
fpecies, efpecially fuch as are remarkably nearer to 
maturity than thofe two I have juft now mentioned, 
are rare with us, I tried to fupply that defed; by 
opening thofe of other animals. Accordingly 1 pro- 
cured fix puppies, of the butcher-dog-kind, brought 
forth at the full time, at one litter. .Having taken 
out the whole meconium of every one of them, after 
the_ flridefl; fearch, I could find no hairs in any part 
of it. I had likewife an opportunity of opening a 
colt, that died either in the birth, at the full time, 
or immediately after, before its meconium was dif- 
charged 5 which I found in great quantities in its 
-redum and colon. But neither here could I fpy a 
fingle hair, though I examined whole pounds of it, 
and that portion thereof mofl: carefully, which was 
lodged in the redum, near the anus. 
I’hefe obfervations may feem at firfl; view to clafh 
with and contradid thofe I have related : But, upon 
clofer confideration, they will be found in reality to 
confirm them, for this reafon, to wit, that puppies 
and colts, when brought forth, have no loofe hairs 
on their bodies ; but calves have in great numbers. 
In the puppies and colt, which I examined, the 
hairs were fo firmly rooted on their fkins, that I could 
fcarce pull any off with my thumb and fingers j 
whereas in a ripe calf, new brought forth, many are 
found quite loofened at their roots, and only adher- 
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