RUMINATING ANIMALS. 
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by far the largest, and the food remains in it in a 
comparatirely dry state, to undergo a preparation of 
softening. The second is of much smaller size, and 
the sides internally have numerous folds, forming 
polygonal cells, commonly called the honeycomb : 
here water or any liquid is received from the mouth, 
and it is from this that the food, after having passed 
and undergone its preparation, is passed to the mouth, 
and undergoes the operation of a second mastica- 
tion, or “ chewing of the cud.” When the food is 
again swallowed, it passes at once to the third sto- 
mach or compartment, which contains various septa 
or leaves, which are so placed, that whatever comes 
from the second stomach must fall between them, 
and describe three-fourths of a circle before it can 
reach the orifice of the fourth stomach. This, in the 
common language of Scotland, is called the “ mony- 
Jilies ; from hence the food is conveyed to the 
fourth division, where true digestion from the juices 
takes place, and it is entirely changed in its proper- 
ties ; milk is coagulated, #cc. 
In these animals a very beautiful process also 
takes place in the young, where the milk, then their 
only sustenance, requires no process of rumination. 
