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evident ; nor can it be doubted that the same thing happens 
in other animals ; for the cells of the lymphatic glands are 
easily inflated, and injected from the arteries. 
The ready communication of these bags with the veins of 
the whale, induced me to examine whether I could ascertain 
any thing similar in other animals. Air impelled into the 
lymphatic glands, however, seldom gets into the veins; some- 
times indeed veins are injected from these glands; but when 
this has occurred to me, I have observed an absorbent arising 
from the gland, and terminating in the adjacent vein. 
These remarks, perhaps, may not be very important; such, 
however, is the nature of the subject, that all the knowledge 
we have hitherto obtained of the absorbing vessels has been 
acquired by fragments, and all our future acquisitions must be 
made in the same manner : I have wished, therefore, by of- 
fering these observations, to contribute my mite to the ge- 
neral stock of our knowledge of this subject 
MDCCXCV I. 
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