40 6 Mr. Hunter’s Qbfervatiom on the 
tefline, forming the jejunum. In this courfe behind the mefen- 
tery it is expofed, as in mofl quadrupeds, not being covered by it, 
as in the human. The jejunum and ilium pafs along the edge of 
the mefentery downwards to the lower part of the abdomen. 
The ilium near the lower end makes a turn towards the 
right fide, and then mounting upwards, round the edge of 
the mefentery, paffes a little way on the right, as high as 
the kidney, and there enters the. colon, or caecum. The cae- 
cum lies on the lower end of the kidney, confiderably higher 
than in the human body, which renders the afcending part of 
the colon (hort. The caecum is about feven inches long, and 
more like that of the Lion or Seal than of anv other animal I 
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know. 
The colon pafies obliquely up the right fide, a little towards 
the middle of the abdomen ; and when as high as the ftomach, 
croifes to the left, and acquires a broad mefocolon : at this 
part it lies upon the left kidney, and in its paflage down gets 
more and more to the middle line of the body. When it has 
reached the lower part of the abdomen, it paifes behind the 
uterus, and along with the vagina, in the female ; between the 
two teflicles, and behind the bladder and root of the penis, in 
the male, bending down to open on what is called the belly 
of the animal ; and in its whole courfe it is gently convoluted. 
In thofe which have no caecum, and therefore can hardly be 
Laid to have a colon, the intelline before its termination in the 
redtum makes the fame kind of fweep round the other intef- 
tines, as the colon does where there is a caecum. 
The inteftines are not large for the lize of the animal, not be- 
ing larger in thofe of eighteen or twenty-four feet long than in 
.the Horfe, the colon not much more capacious than the jejunum 
and ilium, and very fhort ; a circumftance common to carni- 
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