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food descends in larger quantities, and at long in- 

 tervals, the gall-bladder is necessary ; and there 

 is that sympathy between the stomach and gall- 

 bladder, that they are filled and emptied at the 

 same time. The absence of the gall-bladder in 

 the horse, therefore, implies the almost continual 

 process of digestion : which again results from the 

 smallness of the stomach. 



Another peculiarity in the horse is the supply of 

 fluid. When the camel drinks, the water is de- 

 posited in cells connected with the stomach ; but 

 if a horse drinks a pail of water, in eight minutes 

 none of that water is in the stomach ; it is rapidly 

 passed off into the large intestine and the caecum. 

 We cannot resist the conviction that this variation 

 in the condition of the digestive organs of the horse, 

 is in correspondence with his whole form and pro- 

 perties, which are for sudden and powerful, as 

 well as long-continued exertion. 



