Of Quadrupeds 
well to govern ; rowles and tumbles the meat to and fro 
therein: and at the fame time, with the help of the faid 
Nervous Knots of feveral degrees of finenefs (as the Gold- 
fmitb hath his Afayers of feveral degrees of nicenefs) judges 
of the Courfenefs or Finenefs, Crudencfs, or Concoction of'* 
any part of it; and accordingly lets it reft,or removes it. So 
then the groiTeft ofthefe Ajfayers ftanding about the Gulet, 
and fo in the paflage ot the meat between the Panel) and the 
Reticulum , being the proper judges of what is Courfe or 
Crude 5 if they find ltfo, then ’tis tumbled back to receive 
a further maturation in the Ranch. If fomewhat fine and 
Concocted, ’tis then permitted to pafs on and rowl into the 
Reticulum. And the faid Ajfayers or Nervous Knobs being 
here lharper and fofter, than in the Ranch ; have ftill a more 
accurate Taft: and therefore what they yet find too courfe, 
the Reticulum forthwith throws it up into the Gulet and 
Mouth. From whence, being further refined, ’tis re¬ 
manded to the Reticulum 5 and thence after a while, into 
the Third Stomach or the Omajws. And This again being 
a more nice AJfayer than the Reticulum 5 if it feels the meat 
fine and foft enough, paffeth it into the laft Stomach or 
Abomafus. But if otherwife, throws it back into the Reti¬ 
culum , and the Reticulum into the Gulet and Mouth to be 
labour’d once again, and fo remanded. 
CHAP. VII. 
Of the ZJfes of the Guts of Quadrupeds. 
I Shall here, as before, pafs over fuch particulars as have 
been fpoken of by others; and divers alfo which being 
obfervable in the Gulet and Stomachs, as well as here, have 
been already fufficiently explain’d. 
And firft the different Bore of the Guts is obfervable. 
So, for example, the Guts of a Horfe are very wide. For 
that he both fwalloweth,and difehargeth from his Stomach 
into his Guts, the meat more grofs 5 which therefore re- 
quireth a more open paffage, left it Ihould clog. As alfo, 
that it may move with greater fpeed towards the Caecum, 
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