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quantity of veffels expended upon the 
mufclcs is alfo prodigious, and they like- 
wife are found to accompany the pourfe 
and diftribution of the nerves. 
The fize and number of the nerves 
which are bellowed upon the electrical 
organs, are truly extraordinary a;nd afto- 
nilhing. 
The nerves of the mufcles are likewife 
very large, and their number is fo great, 
that feveral phyliologills have believed, 
that the mufcular fibre is only compofecf 
of nervous fibrils. 
From thefe confiderations it appears, 
that mufcles are fo many electrical organs, 
which are more lingular than the organs 
of fillies, forafmuch as at the fame time 
they ferve as the inftruments of motion. 
Each mufcle being as it were a battery, 
the quantity of eleCtrical fluid condenfed 
by animals mult be immenfe. 
Were it in the power of animals to dis¬ 
charge 
