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■ ing^'ln k ^ where they may be refpited^ litl. tmmnting its 
force^ it gives them another liftj and upon a Third effort 
ac !aft wholly ejefts them. And if what is confidently re-- 
ported by maay^ be true^ that on occafion of danger they 
receive their young ioto their Af^^^^/^X;, thefe are fit places 
for receiving them. 
Thefood before it can prove ali{g§»i|;, muft commi- 
«uted 3 and broaiieu into the fmalleft: particles > which 
in tlieie niembranous Stomaci^ > 1 can't fee how it can be 
performed/but by corrofion. 
A principal menftruum ia doing this, I t ike to be that 
liquor^ which is difcharged by the Glands that are feated in 
fome fat the begining of the Throatsaod are called Salival^ 
or juft above the Stomack or Gi^i^ard of Birds , and called 
the Echimii\fix \x\ others in the Stomack its fe!f, and called 
t\it ^Imidulms coat ; and fuch I take the inward coat of the 
Stomack^ of our 'R^ttk-Snake to be. 
When comminuted tis difcharged into the Guts^ which 
that the Ch'ile might not pafs ofR with the Fxces^ are often 
; v'tg. 2. convoluted, or winding as here ; that fo by impeding a 
too quick defcent of it this way, or by Valves^ a feparation 
may the better be made ; and then the ¥(2ces as ufelefs > 
can't quicker be difcharged than by the reiium ; which 
where the fences are hard, is furnilht with a ftronger muj'^ 
de the better to help its ailion h and fuch feemed the reBum 
here 7 and the i^^^r^x harder then ufual in i^^^^r/. 
So that the whole Du&us Alimentalu from its ufes, may 
ordinarily be divided into 4 parts, i That which conveys 
the Food, the Oefophagm. 2 That which digefts or cor- 
^ rodes it, the stomack^ 3 That which deftributes the chyle, 
thtlntefiines. 4 That which empties the /i^r^j^ the 
urn. But a Leech is all stomackj from one end to the other^ 
and do's devour at a meale feveral times the weight of its 
whole body The ^tomac^ynhtn fv^-eii'd aodilrecht vi^ith 
hlood\% far bigger than the Leech it felfe i nay feveral times 
exceeds ita But i miftook the number , it wmmiom, 
but many Stomac^^^ for the cavity is di^^ded by fevered 
