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different sizes and forms in different parts of the rumen. Toward the 

 longitudmal bands or duplicatures thev are small, and thinlv set • 

 they are more numerous and larger toWard the centre of the com- 

 partments ; and largest of all in the bottom of the posterior and most 

 capacious sac In every part of the rumen they are more thickly 

 set, and broad and strong toward the centre or bottom of each com"- 

 partment. Ihey are also harder and blacker in these places When 

 regarded m different compartments, they appear to be bent or inclined 



hev^r.ll .^'7^^-^"^ >^ but when they are more closely examined, 

 t/it "" ^:^,^^^^^^.^^ '\^. direction which the food takes in its pass- 



er^oiul ^^^ ''''''^' ^''T""' "^ '^'^ ^"^^"- '^^^^y ^'^ evidently 

 food whn^ may sometimes bristle up and ^pose the passage of the 

 food , while at other times they yield and bend, and suffer it to pass 



Tlnn^ V'^-'"'' ''h^T'^^"' ^"""^^ ^-^'^^ i^^gi^^d that these are 

 glandular bodies, and that they secrete a peculfar fluid ; others con- 

 bne the glandular apparatus to the tissue between the cuticular coat ; 



