42 The Stomachs and Guts. 
other Guts : that fo the Meat therein may lie the more 
quiet. 
The ampliation of the Return, chiefly in Wild Fowls, 
amongft other Reafons, is, I fuppofe, That the Dung lying 
there in good quantity, may be as a Count er-poife 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, vh^ That many of them have no 
Stomach, that is one that is not Belly 'd 5 as in the Salmon, 
Jack,-, Tench, Barbie, Br erne: or very little, as in the Place. 
And many more, inftead of One Cacum, as in fome Qua- 
drupeds 3 or Two, as in moil Birds 5 have three or four, as 
the Pearch 3 nine or ten, as the Rochet 3 many more, as the 
Trout, above thirty 3 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 Connivent Valve, 
The Guts two only. The upper end of the hrft, hath two 
little extuberant Parts, the ufe whereof may be anfwerable 
to one ufe of the Cacurn, fc. To divert the Meat, left upon 
any Inverted Motion of the Gut, it fhould regurgitate into 
the Stomach, or (train 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 fhewed in the laft Table. 
The Stomach of a Salmon is only like a wide Gut.He hath 
about fourfcore Cxca, hanging on the great Gut, almoft 
like the Mane upon the NecJtofa. Horfe. Being ty'd alto- 
gether with fmall Veffels, and the Veffels hid with Fat 3 they 
have been miftaken by fome for a Pancreas. The Reflum is 
guarded with about thirty Annular Valves. 
The Whiting hath a large Stomach, which is a diftinct 
Bag or Belly. And numerous Caca, not ftanding as in the 
Salmon, but all in a Ruck. The Stomach and Guts of a Cod 
are very like. 
Some 
