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much, the largest, and is divided a pretty way on its thin edge by a 

 fissure : the two lateral ones are of equal size, and are equally on both 

 sides, so that the left lobe passes between the stomach, spleen, and ribs ; 

 and the right passes between the stomach, pylorus, and ribs on the right 

 side. The right has a little lobe attached to its inner surface, just at 

 the entrance of the hole behind the vessels of the liver. The ligamentum 

 latum is but very narrow, there being only a little doubling of the 

 peritoneum, and the umbilical vein is not enclosed in it. The gall- 

 bladder adheres to the middle lobe on the right side of its fissure, and 

 pretty near it, by nearly one-half of its surface ; it is honeycombed on 

 the inside. The ducts are very superficial, not deep, among the vessels 

 going to the liver : the cystic duct is pretty straight and joins the right 

 hepatic duct some way before the other ; but this common duct joins 

 the left, and forms the ductus communis, which enters the duodenum 

 about half an inch from the pylorus. 



"We observed some lymphatics coming off the gall-bladder down by 

 the side of the ducts, and entering a gland that lay on the right side of 

 these vessels ; these were filled with a fluid of the same colour that the 

 dxicts of the gall-bladder were. I cut them and tasted it, and it was 

 bitter ; but what made it plain that it was the bile, was their filling 

 upon squeezing the gall-bladder, which I did several times, and tasted 

 this, which was the same as before. I forgot to examine the bile after 

 it had passed the gland. 



The pancreas is made up of four portions : the largest is placed much 

 as in the human, only it is not attached so closely to the spleen, and it 

 is loose at the small end, which lies before the left kidney : the second 

 portion lies in the mesentery of the duodenum, as in other animals : 

 the third portion lies between the union of the two former and the 

 pylorus, and is pretty close to the duodenum : the fourth portion, which 

 is the second in size, comes from behind the root of the mesentery and 

 descending part of the colon towards the right, and joins the others. 

 The ducts of the first, third, and fourth, all unite where these processes 

 unite and form one duct, which passes through the second portion and 

 enters the duodenum about the middle way between the pylorus and 

 its turn to cross the spine. 



The spleen is very long and small, of a triangular form, lying between 

 the stomach and the left lobe of the liver : its attachments are very 

 large, by means of its vessels and epiploon, which are to the stomach, 

 pancreas, and transverse turn of the colon : what answers to the lower 

 end was turned forwards and lay before the stomach, between it and 

 the liver. 



The kidneys are conglobate like a dog's ; they are of an equal height 



