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ganization upon which a faculty so rare and so 

 beneficial depends. A number of distinct sacks 

 or bags (in a dromedary thirteen of these have 

 been counted) are observed to lie between the 

 membranes of the second stomach, and to open 

 into the stomach near the top by small square 

 apertures. Through these orifices, after the 

 stomach is full, the annexed bags are filled 

 from it ; and the water so deposited is, in the 

 first place, not liable to pass into the intestines ; 

 in the second place, is kept separate from the 

 solid aliment ; and, in the third place, is out of 

 the reach of the digestive action of the stomach, 

 or of mixture with the gastric juice. It appears 

 probable, or rather certain, that the animal, by 

 the conformation of its muscles, possesses the 

 power of squeezing back this water from the 

 adjacent bags into the stomach, whenever thirst 

 excites it to put this power in action. Dr. Paley. 



REMARKABLE LARGE OAK TREE. 



Mr. Wilson, of Scottou, in Yorkshire, had 

 standing, in January, 1819, in the corner of one 

 of his fields, an oak tree, which stretched its 



