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?;ion, and squeezed out between the upper ribs and vertebras
of the neck, to which parts they strongly grew and adhered.
The lungs of this creature, had they been placed in their
natural cavity, would not have filled above a sixth part of
it. The bones of this creature being also so different in
substance and structure, from those of common rabbits, the
head and one paw only excepted.
li All the other thirteen animals were, in every particular,
like well formed, common, natural rabbits, from the size of
two months’ growth to four. They were all broken in
pieces, and much in the same manner. I shall describe
these pieces in the order that Mr. Howard told us they had
commonly been brought away. First the fore paws with
the fur on; then the liver and intestines; the trunk and
shoulders in another part. In three or four animals the loins
separated from the os sacrum; and in the rest, the ischium
and thighs in one piece, with the loins : the head with its
fur, and lastly the skin.
“When all these several parts were put together in their
proper order, they manifestly made up, and appeared to be-
long to the above-mentioned animals ; but the viscera were
wanting in four or five of them. One remarkable circuth-
stance is, that most of these animals were females, as far as
I could judge.
“ The heart and liver of those which we examined, appeared
much larger than usual, when compared with the lungs and
intestines which belonged to them; which, on the contrary,
were extremely small. The coecum and colon, which are
remarkably large in rabbits, appeared not to exceed in big-
ness the other intestines, and the spiral structure of the coe-
cum was not yet unfolded ; the stomach was in like manner
much contracted, and its pylorus very straight and narrow.
I could not discover, in any of the livers that I examined,
the ductus venosus, nor the implantation of the umbilical
vein in that organ.
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?;ion, and squeezed out between the upper ribs and vertebras
of the neck, to which parts they strongly grew and adhered.
The lungs of this creature, had they been placed in their
natural cavity, would not have filled above a sixth part of
it. The bones of this creature being also so different in
substance and structure, from those of common rabbits, the
head and one paw only excepted.
li All the other thirteen animals were, in every particular,
like well formed, common, natural rabbits, from the size of
two months’ growth to four. They were all broken in
pieces, and much in the same manner. I shall describe
these pieces in the order that Mr. Howard told us they had
commonly been brought away. First the fore paws with
the fur on; then the liver and intestines; the trunk and
shoulders in another part. In three or four animals the loins
separated from the os sacrum; and in the rest, the ischium
and thighs in one piece, with the loins : the head with its
fur, and lastly the skin.
“When all these several parts were put together in their
proper order, they manifestly made up, and appeared to be-
long to the above-mentioned animals ; but the viscera were
wanting in four or five of them. One remarkable circuth-
stance is, that most of these animals were females, as far as
I could judge.
“ The heart and liver of those which we examined, appeared
much larger than usual, when compared with the lungs and
intestines which belonged to them; which, on the contrary,
were extremely small. The coecum and colon, which are
remarkably large in rabbits, appeared not to exceed in big-
ness the other intestines, and the spiral structure of the coe-
cum was not yet unfolded ; the stomach was in like manner
much contracted, and its pylorus very straight and narrow.
I could not discover, in any of the livers that I examined,
the ductus venosus, nor the implantation of the umbilical
vein in that organ.
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