Of Quddrupedf. 
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Throughout the length of it, run many fmall Nerves, like 
the fined Lawn-Thread. 
This Corpus Nervofum, is, as I conceive the TENDON to 
the two next or Mufcular Membranes. 
Thefe Two ( they are at lead two ) are truly Mufcular. 
S tenon hath obferved them to be fpirally continu d t which 
of fome of them is true, not of all. And Dr. Willis faith 
alfo truly, That they Decufate, the one winding from the 
right hand downwards, the other from the left. But, to 
proceed where thefe two accurate Perfons have left $ of the 
admirable Texture of thefe two Mufcules, it is further ob- 
fervable, That of each parcel of Fibers, one half is fo diftri- 
buted, as thofe Fibers which belong to the uppermost Muf- 
cule on the right hand, are in their progrefs towards the 
left, caft into that which lies underneath. And fo on the 
contrary, thofe which belong to the Upmoft on the left 
hand, are caft, into that which lies underneath on the right ; 
both together making a perfect Plat, fomewhat like to that 
in a Riding-Whip. The other half keeps always above, and 
is continu <d by a compounded line, partly Spiral,md partly 
Elliptic^ efpecially towards and at the bottom of the 
Quia. 
The Stomachs or Venters in a Sheep are Four. The 
Firft, or Panch, confifteth of as many Membranes as the 
Gulet. The Inmoft and the next, fc . the Nervous, are raifed 
up, and made all over rough with a multitude of fmall Ner- 
vous and pointed Knots, in fome places fmaller and round 5 
in others larger and flat : all very like thofe upon the 
Tongue. 
In the Panch alfo are feveral Gibbofities, caufed chiefly 
by the doublings and thicknefs of the Mufcular Mem- 
branes, in thofe places. So that they are as it were the Ten- 
dons of the faid Membranes. 
The Second Venter , is by the Latins called Reticulum. In 
which are the like Nervous Knots, as in the Panch, but 
fmaller. And comprehended within feveral round Ridges 
or Plates compofed together in the form of a Net or Honey- 
Coome. 
The Third, is called the Omafm : by Butchers the Fee 4 
Of a wonderful ftruclure : being divided into above 40 
Receptacles by fo many Sepiments, great and fmall: 
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