The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . •. CAMIAGE IDMjESS . ? LONDON FASHIONS. very peculiar faculties of expan-sion and action at the same his head and neck had noother appearance than that or aserpents skin stuffed almost tobursting, still the workings of themuscles were evident; and Ids pow-er of suction, as it is generally buterroneously called, unabated : itwas, in fact, the effect of a con-tractile muscular power, assistedby two rows of strong hooked all this he must be so formedas to be able to suspend, for a time,his res
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . •. CAMIAGE IDMjESS . ? LONDON FASHIONS. very peculiar faculties of expan-sion and action at the same his head and neck had noother appearance than that or aserpents skin stuffed almost tobursting, still the workings of themuscles were evident; and Ids pow-er of suction, as it is generally buterroneously called, unabated : itwas, in fact, the effect of a con-tractile muscular power, assistedby two rows of strong hooked all this he must be so formedas to be able to suspend, for a time,his respiration ; for it is impossibleto conceive that the process ofbreathing could be carried on whilethe mouth and throat were so com-pletely stuffed and expanded bythe body of the goat, and the lungsthemselves (admitting the trachea to be ever so hard) compressed, asthey must have been, by its pas-downwards. The whole operation of com-pletely gorging the goat occupiedabout two hours and twenty mi-nutes; at the end of which time,the tumefaction was confined tothe middle part of the b
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