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the ladteals, arteries and veins are feen to> 
make a net-work on many of the villi. 
i6. A piece of the ftomach of a cod, in which 
the lymphatics are filled with m.ercury, and 
very minutely. They are feen to go through 
the external coats of the flomach, dividing 
into fmaller and fmailer branches, without 
any appearance of a net-work between the 
mufcular and the villous coat ; and as a con- 
fiderabie force was ufed in the injeding them,, 
I am inclined to believe that the flomach in, 
fifh has not the net- work of veffels between 
the mufcular and the villous coat, as the in- 
teftines have 
{(i) Thefe preparations were laid before the Society on the 
fame evening this paper was read. 
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