S 66 Mr. Home’s Observations on the Camel’s Stomach 
their relative situation, will be distinctly seen in the annexed 
drawing (Plate XVII. ). On the left side of the termination 
of the oesophagus a broad muscular band has its origin, from 
the coats of the first stomach, and passes down in the form 
of a fold parallel to the great ridge, till it enters the orifice 
of the second stomach, which gives it another direction. It is 
continued along the upper edge of that cavity, and terminates 
within the orifice of a small bag, which may be termed the 
third stomach. 
This band on one side, and the great ridge on the other, 
form a canal, which leads from the oesophagus down to the 
cellular structure in the lower part of the first stomach. 
The orifice of the second stomach, when this muscle is not 
in action, is nearly shut, and at right angles to the side of the 
first. Its cavity is a pendulous bag, in which there are 12 
rows of cells, formed by as many strong muscular bands 
passing in a transverse direction, and intersected by weaker 
muscular bands so as to form the orifices of the cells. 
Above these cells, between them and the muscle, which 
passes along the upper part of this stomach, is a smooth surface 
extending from the orifice of this stomach to the termination 
in the third. 
From this account, it is evident that the second stomach 
neither receives the solid food in the first instance, as in the 
bullock, nor does it afterwards pass into its cavity or cellular 
structure. 
The food first passes into the general cavity of the first 
stomach, and that portion of it, which lies in the recess imme- 
diately below the entrance of the oesophagus under which the 
cells are situated is kept moist, and is readily returned into 
