of the Peruvian Lama. 491 



holes, which were the orifices of about twenty cavities, made like 

 sacs, placed between the two membranes which do compose 

 the substance of this ventricle. The view of these sacs made us 

 think that they might well be the reservatories where PLINY 

 says camels do a long time keep the water which they drink in 

 great abundance, when they meet with it, to supply the wants 

 which they may have thereof in the dry deserts, where they are 

 used to travel, and where it is said that those which do guide 

 them are sometimes forced, by extremity of thirst, to open their 

 belly, in which they do find water." 



We do not find in this description that remarkable accuracy 

 and minuteness of description, which so very generally characte- 

 rize their memoirs. They have not stated, as they ought to 

 have done, and was afterwards discovered and perfectly described 

 by DAUBENTON, that the distended stomach presents an appear- 

 ance of four stomachs, but, when opened, there are found to be 

 five ; that the paunch abounds with large cells, as well as the 

 second stomach (which DAITBENTON also called the reservoir) ; 

 that the third stomach, which was also discovered by DAUBEN- 

 TON, and admirably depicted in his works, is exceedingly small, 

 and forms a kind of rudiment of the king's-hood of the strictly 

 ruminants. Moreover, he explained very beautifully the struc- 

 ture of those deep square cells, with apertures surrounded by 

 bundles of muscular fibres, in which he says he found abundance 

 of fluid, a structure which seemed to retain the water like a 

 sponge. Two or three pints of clear and almost insipid water 

 were found in the cells of the second stomach, ten days after the 

 death of the animal. He concludes, then, that the second sto- 

 mach, or reservoir, is a stomach superadded to the others in the 

 camel, for the express purpose of a reservoir. To these descrip- 

 tions of the stomach of the camel, DAUBENTON added drawings 

 of inimitable accuracy. The ingenious and elegant popular wri- 

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