120 WATEK-CELLS OF THE CAMEL's STOMACH. 



to be enormously distended with food, and these cavities — 

 of which there must have been fifty or sixty — contained a 

 grumous fluid. The stomach wall was from two to three 

 inches thick in some parts, rather thinner in others ; and the 

 orifices of the water-cells were constricted, forming a kind 

 of 'sphincter. The lining epithelium was smooth. Micro- 

 scopically, the muscular coat consisted of masses of long^ 

 unstriped muscular fibres, with indistinct nuclei. 



