344 7^e Wisdom of GOD Part II. 



As to the fecond, the Provifion that is made 

 for their Suftenance in their continu'd Travels 

 over fandy Defarts, the fame Academifts obferve, 

 that at the top of the fecond Ventricle (for they 

 are ruminant Creatures, and have fowre Stomachs) 

 there vv^ere feveral fquare Holes, which were the 

 Orifices of about twenty Cavities,made like Sacks, 

 placed between the two Membranes which do 

 compofe the Subftance of this Ventricle; the 

 View of thefe Sacks made us to think that they 

 might well be the Refer vatories, where P/iny fays 

 that Camels do a long time keep the V/ater, 

 which they drink in great abundance when they 

 meet with it, to fupply the Wants which they 

 may have thereof in the dry Defarts wherein they 

 are us'd to travel, and where it is faid that thofe 

 that do guide them are fometimes forced, by Ex- 

 tremity of Thirft, to open their Bellies, in which 

 they do find Water. 



That fuch an Animal as this, fo patient of long 

 Thirft, {hould be bred in fuch droughty and 

 parched Countries, where it is of fuch eminent 

 Ufe for travelling over thofe dry and fandy De- 

 farts, where no Water is to be had fometimes in 

 two or three Days Journey, no candid and con- 

 fiderate Perfon but muft needs acknowledge to 

 be an Effeft of Providence and Defign. 



Such Animals as feed naturally upon Flefli, 

 both Quadrupeds and Birds, becaufe fuch kind of 



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