1 62 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



ly the fame in breadth ; the liver, when meafured from 

 right to left, was found to be three feet and a half in 

 breadth, and two feet and a half deep, as it hangs in the 

 animaPs body when in a (landing pofition : It had no 

 gall-bladder, in which it refembles the Horfe. Upon 

 opening the itomach, the contents of it were found to 

 confift of roots and fmall branches of trees mafticated, 

 fome of which were as big as the end of a man's finger ; 

 in the mafs there appeared a great quanty of fucculent 

 plants, as well as fome that were harm and prickly: The 

 effluvium arifing from this mafs was fo far from being 

 ofFenfive, that it difFufed around a very ftrong and not 

 difagreeable aromatic odour. We {hall conclude this ac- 

 count by obferving, that the cavity which contained the 

 brains was fmall, being only fix inches long, and four 

 high, and of an oval (hape : Being filled with peafe, it 

 was found to contain barely one quart ; a human fkull, 

 meafured at the fame time, did not require much lefs 

 than three pints to fill it. 



