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regular cells, which would have held from two 

 to four ounces, but posteriorly the cells were very 

 irregular, holding about two ounces." 



" The second cavity of the stomach, which 

 must serve merely as a receptacle for water, had 

 a crescentic form, the small curvature measuring 

 seven inches, and the large, fifteen. It com- 

 municated very freely with the first cavity at the 

 distance of four and one-half inches from the 

 oesophagus : the opening into the third cavity is 

 smaller, and immediately below this it formed a 

 cul-de-sac which was two inches deep ; midway, 

 it measured, transversely, on the inner surface, 

 nine and. a half inches. In the small curvature 

 there was a smooth space, four inches wide at 

 the left extremity, but diminishing to one inch 

 at the right. Along this space there ran a 

 strongly marked muscular band ; it arose on the 

 left side of the termination of the oesophagus, 

 measured there one inch wide, but gradually di- 

 minished and terminated at the opening of the 

 second cavity into the third. Thus the opening 

 of the third cavity is drawn up towards that of 

 the oesophagus to receive the cud that has been 

 chewed, and which is prevented from falling 

 again into the first cavity by the united action 

 of the large muscular band in the first cavity, 

 and the small one in the second. The cells of 

 this cavity were much more numerous, and very 



