42 The Stomachs and Guts. 
other Guts: that fo the Meat therein may lie the more 
quiet. 
The ampliation of the Return, chiefly in Wild Far Is, 
amongft other Reafons, is, I fuppofe, That the Dung lying 
there in good quantity, may be as a Counter-poife to the 
Head, to keep it up in flying. 
CHAP. X. 
Of the Stomachs and Guts of FISHES. 
|N fo many as I have open’d, two Things are more gene- 
tally obfervable, viz;. That many of them have no 
Stomach, that is one that is not Belly'd $ as in the Salmon , 
Jack,, Tench , Barbie , Brerne: or very little, as m the Place. 
And many more, inftead of One Ccecum, as in fome Qua¬ 
drupeds 5 or Two, as in mod Birds 5 have three or four, as 
the Pearcb 5 nine or ten, as the Rochet 5 many more, as the 
Trout, above thirty 5 the Whiting, above forty ; the Salmon 
many more. 
The Stomach of a Place fhaped almoft like the Echinus 
of a Bird. Bounded at the bottom with a Connivent Valve. 
The Guts two only. The upper end of the flrft, hath two 
little extuberant Parts, the ufe whereof may be anfwerable 
to one ufe of the C cecum, fc. To divert the Meat, left upon 
any Inverted Motion of the Gut, it ftiould regurgitate into 
the Stomach, or ftrain the Valve. The bottom of this Gut 
is feparated from the Re cl urn, by another pretty Connivent 
Valve: both which, and theviiibleTexture of the Fibers, 
are fhewed in the laft Table. 
The Stomach of a Salmon is only like a wide Gut.He hath 
about fourfcore Caeca, hanging on the great Gut, almoft 
like the Matte upon the NecToi a Horfe. Being ty’d alto¬ 
gether with fmall Veflels, and the Veflels hid with Fat; they 
have been miftaken by fome for a Pancreas. The Rettum is 
guarded with about thirty Annular Valves. 
The Whiting hath a large Stomach, which is a diftinct 
Bag or Belly. And numerous Caeca, not Handing as in the 
Salmon, but all in a Ruck. The Stomach and Guts of a Cod 
are very like. 
Some 
