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duodenum, and it is immediately bent back towards the left and a little 

 forwards, getting before the root of the mesentery, and winds backwards 

 towards the spine on the left of the root of the mesentery, and then 

 passes down the back, forming the rectum. Besides these turns, spiral 

 from the circumference towards the centre, and again from the centre 

 to the circumference, considering it as if on a plane, they are spiral 

 forming a* small cone, being convex on the under or posterior surface ; 

 and of course concave on the fore-part, but which is not seen, from the 

 mesentery covering this surface 1 . 



There is no gall-bladder. The epiploon is attached forwards to the 

 second, third, and fourth cavities of the stomach ; and behind, to the 

 first. It is, at these attachments, double ; but when these two unite, 

 they seem to unite into one, which encloses the whole intestine, going 

 round and round, wherever they are pendulous. 



There are two puncta lacrymalia. The gland at the corner of the 

 eye in some deer 2 is hardly visible in this. 



Female Spotted Deer, from Mr. Snow of Harpur Street [Cervus 



Axis, Erxl.?]. 



The epiploon covered nearly the whole of the intestines; nothing 

 being seen of the intestines, upon opening the abdomen, but the caecum. 

 It is a bag, or double membrane, whose attachment above, or what may 

 be called its mouth, is not extensive. The anterior attachment is to 

 the stomach ; viz. beginning at the left of its attachment to this viscus, 

 which is at the lower part, where the first cavity terminates in a double 

 end. From this beginning its attachment to the stomach is upwards 

 towards the fourth bag ; then towards the right along the fourth bag, to 

 the beginning of the duodenum ; as also a little way along that gut : it 

 then becomes attached down the right side to one of the ascending turns 

 of the colon for 4 or 5 inches, and makes a quick turn up upon the 

 same gut, close to the other, which attachment is continued a little way 

 towards the left ; and from thence it passes up to the posterior surface 

 of the first bag of the stomach to join that part where we set out with 

 our description. 



The duodenum, near its beginning, makes a short turn or convolution ; 

 then passes down the right side, attached to the right or outside of the 

 [first ascending?] turn of the colon ; and, when got below the kidney, 

 it makes a turn upwards and towards the left, obliquely. "When got to 

 the left it gets upon the left edge of the mesentery, becoming jejunum 



1 [Home, Comp. Anat. i. p. 466. tab. cxxix.] 



2 [The Hunt. Prep. No. 2101 shows this gland or sinus in the rein-deer.] 



