40 8 Mr. Hunter’i Obfervations on the 
mach. In the Piked Whale its entrance is a little way on the 
poflerior part of the upper end, and is oblique. 
The fecond flomach in the Piked Whale is very large, and 
rather longer than the firft. It is of the fhape of the Italic S T 
palling out from the upper end of the firft on its right fide* 
by nearly as large a beginning as the body of the bag. In the 
Porpoife it by no means bears the fame proportion to the firft, 
and opens by a narrower orifice; then palling down along the 
right lide of the firft ftomach, it bends a little outwards at the 
lower end, and terminates in the third. Where this fecond fto- 
mach begins, the cuticle of the firft ends. The whole of the in- 
fide of this ftomach is thrown into unequal rugae, appearing like 
a large irregular honeycomb. In the Piked Whale the rugae 
are longitudinal, and in many places very deep, fome of them 
being united by crofs bands ; and in the Porpoife the folds are very 
thick, mafly, and indented into one another. This flomach 
opens into the third by a round contra&ed orifice, which does 
not feem to be valvular. 
The third flomach is by much the fmallefl, and appears 
to be only a paflage between the fecond and fourth. It has no 
peculiar ftrudlure on the infide, but terminates in the fourth 
by nearly as large an opening as its beginning. In the Por- 
poife it is not above one, and in the Bottle-nofe about five 
inches long. 
The fourth flomach is of a confiderable fize; but a good 
deal lefs than either the firfl or fecond. In the Piked Whale 
it is not round, but feems flattened between the fecond and 
fifth. In the Porpoife it is long, palling in a ferpentine courfe 
almofl like an intefline. The internal furface is regular, but 
Villous, and opens on its right fide into the fifth, by a round 
opening fmaller than the entrance from the third. 
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