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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 235, page id 797370323:0393
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in one part of the Body than another:
betreen chese Scales the Excretory Duets
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and that a Crain oF Sand ill COver 280
oF chese Scales, Pothac one Crain oF Sand
will cover 125000 Orifices ot thele PX.
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che Surtace oF che Whole BodyI Intoerer
one ot thelc Clands an Artery, Vein and
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hor prodisions the Number oF Oreans in
an Animal Body must be, from chele
that are visible to the Fve astisted rith
an ordinary Microscope. Thele Glands (c-
Cerr