ORDER RUMINANTIA. d 



tion, analogous to the simple stomach of common 

 animals. So long as the ruminants live only on 

 their mother's milk, this last is the largest of the 

 stomachs. The paunch does not develop itself, 

 and takes its enormous size only by the reception of 

 the food. The intestinal canal of the ruminants is 

 very long, though but little swelled in the large 

 intestines. Their csecum is the same, long and 

 smooth. The fat of the ruminants hardens more in 

 cooling than that of other quadrupeds, and becomes . 

 even brittle. It is called suet. The mammse are 

 placed between the thighs. 



The ruminants are of all animals those from which 

 man has the greatest advantages. He can eat 

 all of them, and it is from them, in fact, that he 

 derives almost wholly his animal food. Many of 

 them serve as beasts of burden, others are useful for 

 their milk, their fat, their hides, their bones, and 

 other productions. 



The two first genera have no horns. 



The Camels, (Camelus, Lin.) 



Approximate a little more than the others to the 

 preceding order. They have not only always ca- 

 nines in the two jaws, but moreover two pointed 

 teeth implanted in the incisive bone. The lower 

 incisors six in number, and the cheek-teeth twenty 

 or eighteen only. These attributes, as well as hav- 

 ing the scaphoid and cuboid of the tarsus separate, 



they alone of all the ruminants possess. Instead of 



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