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minants, contained 50 or 60 pounds of grass drowned in a more or 

 less considerable quantity of greenish water ; that paunch contains a 

 great number of pockets, closed by some fibres or longitudinal bridles, 

 which do not communicate with each other ; these pockets or troughs, 

 which give to the interior of that part of the paunch the appearance 

 of a melon with very prominent slices, were, we repeat it^ designedly 

 filled with water and food, and more developed in the paunch of the 

 dromedary than in that of the ox. 



SECOND STOMACH. 



The second stomach of the dromedary is composed of a number of 

 tendinous bridles forming a great many small cells divided among 

 themselves by the membrane of the stomach ; the passage from the 

 second to the third stomach is an opening of 30 millimetres (about 1.1 

 inches, H. C. W.) in diameter, formed in a very strong muscular bridle. 



THIRD AND FOURTH STOMACHS. 



These two stomachs present membranous partitions forming very 

 numerous compartments in the third stomach, these partitions are held 

 by strong bridles of a muscular character, the walls of which are fur- 

 nished with thin laminae close together or parallel; whilst in the. 

 fourth stomach, the interlacing of the blood vessels takes place through 

 simple membranes. 



DOUBTS ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE FIFTH STOMACH. 



The appendix to the paunch, designated by naturalists under the 

 name of reservoir of water, and which occupies the position of the 

 "bonnet" in the ox, to which, however, it oifers a different interior 

 structure, has long been considered by some of them as forming the 

 fifth stomach. This distinction, established wrongfully, between the 

 two parts composing the first stomach has been abandoned. Other 

 naturalists, renouncing the design of making a special stomach of the 

 appendix to the first stomach, but pre-occupied also with the thought 

 that there ought to be five stomachs in the dromedary, have counted 

 as a stomach a dilatation of the digestive canal placed at the begin- 

 ning of the duodenum. We believe this to be equally incorrect. To 

 sum up, by an attentive comparison between the stomachic apparatus 

 of the ox and that of the dromedary^ it appears that the fifth stomach 

 cannot be admitted to exist. 



LUNGS OF THE DROMEDARY. 



The lungs of the dromedary have a form similar to those of the 

 horse; they are more voluminous than those of the latter; they are a 

 little stronger than those of the ox. That spongy viscus can, then, 

 only contain a small quantity of air in comparison to the mass of the 

 body ; from which fact it is necessary to conclude that the dromedary 

 is an animal intended to support a continuous, but not violent, fatigue ; 

 that it can, for example, draw a carriage only with difficulty, and, in 

 short, that it is not organized to work in hilly countries. 



