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ladteals from the other fmall inteftines, which vefiels 
accompany the lower mefenteric artery. Thefe laft 
mentioned ladteals, before they join thofe from the 
duodenum , receive from the redlum a lymphatic, which 
runs with the blood-veflels of that gut. Into this 
lymphatic fome fmall branches from the kidneys feem 
to enter, which coming from thofe glands upon the 
melentery of the reBum , at lad: open into its lympha- 
tics. At the root of the coeliac artery, the lymphatics 
of the lower extremities probably join thofe from the 
inteftines. The former I have not yet traced to their 
termination, though I have diftindtly feen them on the 
blood-vefiels of the thigh ; and in one fubjedt, which 
I injedted, fome veffels were filled, contrary to the 
courfe of the lymph, from the network near the root 
of the cceliac artery ; thefe vefiels ran behind the cava> 
and down upon the aorta , near to the origin of the 
crural arteries, and I prefume they were the trunks of 
thofe branches which I had feen in the thigh. 
At the root of the cceliac artery, and upon the conti- 
guous part of th q aorta ^ a network (fj) is formed by 
the ladteals and lymphatics above defcribed. This 
network confifts of three or four tranfverfe branches, 
which make a communication between thofe which 
are lateral. In the fubjedt from which my drawing 
was made, there were four* From this network arife 
the two thoracic dudts (gg ) ; of which one lies on 
each fide of the fpine, and runs upon the lungs ob- 
liquely upwards towards the jugular vein, into which it 
opens (/ & ri) ; not indeed into the angle between the 
jugular and fubclavian, as in the human fubjedt, but 
into the infide of the jugular vein, nearly oppofite to 
that angle. The thoracic dudt of the left fide is joined - 
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