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in a single series, running upwards of half an inch backwards, or about 

 two-thirds as far back as the palatine teeth. The gullet is armed with 

 small teeth above and below. The jaw teeth are as big as those of the 

 Salmon Trout. There are sixty-six vertebrae in the spine. The 

 pyloric cceca are very numerous, there being about one hundred and 

 fifty-five of them ; and their insertions surround the intestines from the 

 pylorus until it makes a bend downwardB, below which they continue 

 to be inserted for a short way on one side of the gut only." 



