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e second cavity greatly enlarged, and have also accessory groups of 
similar cells developed from the rumen, or first cavity. These cells can 
contain several gallons of water. The relation of this modifica tion, and 
of the eer or humps on the — to the peculiar agen position 
and canines) have been supposed to characterize the gah a hi the 
occurrence of another — pachydermal character, viz., the divided 
metacarpus and metatarsus in the foetus or young of all ruminants, an 
its persistence in the dusting "Mook aquaticus, and in a fossil species of 
antelope; the absence of cotyledons in the chorion of the cam mel-tribe, 
with the retention of some incisors as well as canines in the upper jaw of 
that tribe; the ascertained amount of visceral and osteological conformity 
Rumina 
of the s pposed circumscribed order with the other artio- 
dactyle (even-toed) Ungulata; above all, the number of lost links in that 
bapeap ht. chain which have now restored from ee ruins of former 
transition from chyderms to the ruminants, the speaker had been 
led by considerations of its third trochanter, its astragulus, its simple 
stomach, ¢ mous sacculated caecum, the palzotherian type of the 
pce strata, in drift gravels, in brick-earth deposits, and in bone caves. 
ese pees’ cattle (Bovide) were of gigantic size, with immense 
horns ; one was a true bison (Bison priscus), = other a true ox (Bos 
ius) ; fe ela with these was a smaller species of short- 
vine ox rt meatball and a buffalo, imei — in species 
the mountain te (owora) hich the Celtic 
the Romans, viz., the Welsh “runt” and Hi Scary rar siraamens most resem 
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