THE EUMINANT OEDEE. 



The animals which compose this Order owe their general name to 

 the singular faculty they possess of bringing back into their 

 mouth, in order to re-chew it, the food they have once swallowed. 

 This power is owing to a complicated structure of their stomach, 

 which is divided into several compartments, and which have been 

 considered, though with some exaggeration, as so inauy distinct 



Fig. TO. — The four stomaL'ils of a Sbeep. 



stomachs. The first and largest of these divisions is the joaunch , 

 b b (Fig. 70), which forms a continuation to the (esophagus (a), 

 and occupies a large part of the abdomen, particularly towards the 

 left side. The food is here accumulated after being roughly con- 

 tused by the tirst mastication. 



