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high as the kidney, and there enters the colon, or 

 coecum : the coecum lies on the lower end of the 

 kidney, considerably higher than in the human 

 body, which renders the ascending part of the 

 colon short. The coecum is about seven inches 

 long, and more like that of the Lion or Seal than 

 any other animal I know. 



The colon passes obliquely up the right side, a 

 little towards the middle of the abdomen, and when 

 as high as the stomach, crosses to the left, and ac- 

 quires a broad mesocolon : at this part it lies upon 

 the left kidney, and in its passage down gets 

 more and more to the middle line of the body. 

 When it has reached the lower part of the abdo- 

 men it passes behind the other viscera, bending 

 down to open on what is called the belly of the 

 animal, and in its whole course it is gently con- 

 voluted. In those which have no coecum, and 

 therefore can hardly be said to have a colon, the 

 intestine before its termination in the rectum 

 makes the same kind of sweep round the other in-^ 

 testines as the colon does where there is a coecum. 



The intestines are not large for the size of the 

 animal, not being larger in those of eighteen or 

 twenty-four feet long than in the Horse, the 

 colon not much more capacious than the jejunum 

 and ilium, and very short ; a circumstance com-= 

 mon to carnivorous animals. In the Piked Whale 

 the length from the stomach to the coecum i^ 

 twenty-eight yards and a half, length of coecum 

 seven inches, of ^ the colon to the vent two yards 

 and three quarters. The small intestines are just 



