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 



ELEPHANT'S STOMACH. 



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 to assert (in lectures hitherto unpublished), that the uses 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 may be 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 



