1776. January. examined by M. D a u b e n t o n , which was kept in fpirits. Compare J B u f f o n , Tom. XII. Tab. IV. Fig. 2. The two firft ftomachs, which correfpond with, and were fomewhat fimilar to the ftomachs H. and L. (1. c.) were each of them about feven inches long, and three inches in diameter; the third was nine inches in length, and a little wider than the two former ; the fourth was feven inches long, and at the upper part five inches broad, but decreafed by degrees on one fide till it terminated in the pylorus, which had an aperture an inch in width, being about half as wide again as the cardia. I did not obferve any fuch valves as M. D A U B E N T O N has delineated. The firft ftomach we found moftly empty, it containing only a few lumps of cheefe or curd • it likewife differed from the reft by the fuperior fine- neft of its internal coat. The internal membrane of the f e c o n d ftomach was rather coarfer, and had many fmall holes in i t ; it likewife contained feveral clods of cafeous matter, together with a great quantity of fand and mud. The third ftomach had very vifible folds, both longitudinal and tranfverfaí, on the infide of it, and contained cafeous lumps of a yellow colour and harder confiftence than the others, together with feveral leaves quite whole and freih, and at the fame time fome dirt. The interior membrane of the fourth ftomach was very fmooth, though it was not without folds ; in the ftomach itfelf there was a good deal of dirt with a fmall quantity of curds, which were whiter than they were in any of the other ftomachs. This fourth ftomach in a great meafured covered the reft, being frtuated on the right fide of the animal, and was found to have the upper part of the melt adhearing to its. fuperior and interior inferior edge. This, latter vifcus, which was one foot long 17?^ and three inches broad, diverged from it downwards on the left fide. The inteftinal canal was 109 feet long; the liver meafured fourteen inches from right to left, and feven or eight from the hind part to the fore part. On its anterior edges it had a large notch, being in other refpefis undivided and entire ; it was of an oblique form, being broadeft towards the left fide, where I difcovered a gallbladder five inches in length. In the uterus there was nothing particularly worthy of obfervation ; I found two teats and the heart, furrounded with more fat in proportion than the elk-antilope’s heart, defcribed at page 208 o f this volume ; the length o f this mufcle was five inches, and the breadth about four inches and a half. The communication between the auricles called the foramen ovale, was above an inch in diameter ; each lung was eleven inches long and undivided ^ but. at the fuperior and exterior part o f the right lung, there were two globules or proceffes elevated half an inch above the furface ; and on the fide correfponding to it, in the left lung, and in the upper part of it, there was a little excrefcence, terminating in a point ; fomewhat below this, yet more forwards, there was found likewife a procefs, half an inch in height. Direilly over the lower part of the communication formed between the right and left lung, there was a kind of creft or comb, meafuring an inch from the top to the bafes. One of my brother fportfmeh faid, he had once dbferved a peculiar kind of vermin on the body of one of thefe amphibious animals ; but on the calf we had caught we found nothing but a fpecies of leech, which kept only V o l . II. P p about
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