Chap. III.] 
THE ELEPHANT. 
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The appendage thus alluded to by Sir Everard Home 
is the grand " cul-de-sac," noticed by the Academie des 
Sciences, and the " division particuliere," figured by 
Camper. It is of sufficient dimensions to contain ten 
gallons of water, and by means of the valve above alluded 
to, it can be shut off from the chamber devoted to the 
process of digestion. Professor Owen is probably the 
first who, not from an autopsy, but from the mere in- 
spection of the drawings of Camper and Home, ventured 
to assert (in lectures hitherto unpublished), that the uses 
of this section of the elephant's stomach maybe analogous 
to those ascertained to belong to a somewhat similar 
arrangement in the stomach of the camel, one cavity of 
which is exclusively employed as a reservoir for water, 
and performs no function in the preparation of food. 1 
1 A similar arrangement, with, the Cordilleras of Chili and Peru ; 
some modifications, has more re- but both these and the camel are 
cently been found in the llama of ruminants, whilst the elephants 
the Andes, which, like the camel, belongs to the Pachydermata. 
is used as a beast of burden in 
ELEPHANT'S STOMACH. 
