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The Stomachs and Guts. 
other Guts : that fo the Meat therein may lie the more 
quiet. 
The ampliation of the Recliwi, chiefly in Wild Fowls, 
arnorigft other Reafons, is, I fuppofe, That the Dung lying 
there in good quantity, may be as a Count er-pife to the 
Head, to keep it up in flying. 
CHAP. X. 
Of the Stomachs and Guts of FISHES \ 
IN fo many as I have open'd, two Things are more gene- 
rally obfervable, w%. That many of them have no 
Stomach, that is one that is not Belly ci 5 as in the Salmon, 
Jack, Tench, Barbie, Breme: or very little, as in the Place. 
And many more, inftead of One C^cum, as in fome Qua- 
drupeds 3 or Two, as in mod: Birds 5 have three or four, as 
the Pearch 3 nine or ten, as the Rochet 5 many more, as the 
Trout, above thirty 5 the Whiting, above forty 3 the Salmon 
many more. 
The Stomach of a Place fhaped almoft like the Echinus 
of a Bird. Bounded at the bottom with a Conniveht Valve. 
The Guts two only. The upper end of the fir ft, hath two 
little exuberant Parts, the life whereof may be anfwerable 
to one ufe of the Cacum, fc. To divert the Meat, left upon 
any Inverted Motion of the Gut, it fhould regurgitate into 
the Stomach, or ftrain the Valve. The bottom of this Gut 
is feparated from the Retlum, by another pretty Connivent 
Valve: both which, and the vilible Texture of the Fibers, 
are (hewed in the laft Table. 
The Stomach of a Salmon is only like a wide Gut.He hath 
about fourfcore C<xca, hanging on the great Gut, almoft 
like the Ma?ie upon the Neck^oi a Horfe. Being ty'd alto- 
gether with {mall Velfels, and the Veflels hid with Fat 5 they 
have been miftaken by fome for a Pancreas. The Retlum is 
guarded with about thirty Annular Valves. 
The Whiting hath a large Stomach, which is a diftinct 
Bag or Belly. And numerous C aca, not Handing as in the 
Salmon, but all in a Ruck. The Stomach and Guts of a Cod 
are very like. 
Some 
