Jo. Con. Peyeri, Merycologia, five de Ruminan- 
tibus (is^'Rumi nation e Commintarim^ Bafileas. 4^ 
THE Learned Author obferving that 'Rumination 
has not been handled as it ought, and that many 
of thofe creatures which Ruminate are very ferviceable 
to Man-kind^ Ybut efpecially to his Country-men the 
SwiJfersJ is pleafed to make this matter the Subjed of a 
' Treatile confifting of i Books in the firft of which, after 
a Divifion of Animals into Ruminantia & non Rtiminan^ 
tia^ he reckons up thole of the former kind; fome of 
which he fays, may more properly be faid to Chtvo the 
Cud':, others that Action, and are here cal'd 7^- 
minantia Spuria^ as the Mole-Cricket, Bee, Beetle, Crab, 
Lobfter, Mullet, and feveral Birds : but the creatures 
which Ruminate in a more genuin lenfe, are, among 
Quadrupeds, the Ox, Deer, Sheep, and Goat kind, the 
Camel, Hare, and the Squirrels alfo fome Men; of 
whom he gives feveral inftances. 
In the Second Book, he treats of the Organs fubfer- 
vient to Rumination ; as of the feveral Stomacks belong- • 
ing to fome of the Ruminantia legitima ^ and of them 
firft in general j then in particular of the Paunch, Reticu- 
lus ( K V'?^^®') the F^^>^, t\\QRead'^ of the fingle Stomach 
in Hares, and Rabbits; all which are defcribed with 
great exadnefs, and after a very fatisfadtory manner. 
As to the Stomacks of the 7^^;7z/;2«w^^'^ Spuria i he af- 
firms they all have fpiral mufcalofe Fibres, by means of 
which they do (as it were^ grind and work their meat, 
up and down, after a manner fomewhat analogous to 
Rumination 'Aovix!i\^ better effedting of which, in fome 
of them the Stomack is extreamly rough in the infide, 
as in the Mullet j in others it is very hard and callous, as 
in 
