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anterior sixth of the paunch than anywhere else. The inter- 

 spaces of the larger papillae are filled up by others of less size. 

 They are all elongated, and adhere to the mucous membrane 

 by a narrow base. While these belong to the paunch in rumi- 

 nants generally, in the sheep they are often six lines long and 

 two lines in breadth. To the right, and posteriorly, they are 

 much less prominent, but proportionately broader. As the 

 eye is carried towards the base of this part of the stomach, it 

 meets some of almost as great a size as at the anterior part. 

 In the anterior portion of the left half these prominences are 

 smaller than anywhere else, their vertical diameter being there 

 no more than a line ; those, on the other hand, which occupy 

 the blunted point of this portion have the same, or nearly the 

 same, magnitude as the prominences of the anterior left portion. 



The right half of the paunch is divided from the left by a 

 longitudinal ridge, smooth throughout, extending from the con- 

 traction that separates the left border into two halves as far as 

 the middle of the length of the paunch. 



An analogous ridge of a circular form is seen to the right ; 

 it divides the corresponding half of the paunch into two parts, 

 the one anterior and small, the other posterior and much larger. 

 Towards the middle of the length of this last part a third ridge 

 is met with like the preceding, but somewhat less distinct, 

 which divides this portion into two other portions, the one an- 

 terior, the other posterior. Nevertheless all these ridges, while 

 not very apparent even in the collapsed and empty state of the 

 paunch, disappear almost entirely when the organ is distended 

 with aliment. 



In front and to the right of the paunch the second stomach 

 the reticulum, the honeycomb, or kingshood is observed. 

 This second stomach communicates with the gullet by the 

 same orifice as the paunch. This stomach is in effect no- 

 thing more than an appendage of the paunch, with which it 



