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Received Jans I i7<^'9* 
XXVIII. An Account of fhe^ Lymphatic 
SyP.em m Amphibious -Animals, By P,Pr, 
V/iiliain Fiewfoii, LeBurer in A?iato7ny : 
hi a Letter to William Flunter, M. D, 
Read Nov. 9, A GREEABLE to the promilc 
1769* /~\ which I made, in a poRfcript to the 
paper on the lymphatic fyftem in birds, which the 
Royal Society did me the honour of publilhing in 
their laft volume, I now take the liberty of begging 
of you to prefent to the learned Society an account 
of the fame lyftem in a turtle. 1 fhould likewife 
have added a figure of that animal, had not thefe 
veffels agreed in fo many particulars with thofc in 
birds, that 1 flattered myfelf the defeription would be 
intelligible without it. 
This fyflem in a turtle, like that in birds, confifls of 
the ladeals and lymphatics, and their common trunks, 
or the thoracic du 6 Is. It agrees likewife with that 
in birds, in not having any vilible lymphatic glands 
cither on the n^fentery or near the thoracic dudts; but 
comtnunkated to tloe 
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