Note Book VI. Chap. 4. Note (a) — BOOK VI.

[a] The peculiar Contrivance and Make of the Dromedary’s or Camel’s Stomach, is very remarkable, which I will give from the Parisian Anatomists: At the top of the Second [of the 4 Ventricles] there were several square Holes, which were the Orifices of about 30 Cavities, made like Sacks placed between the two Membranes, which do compose the Substance of this Ventricle. The View of these Sacks made us to think that they might well be the Reservatories, where Pliny saith, that Camels do a long Time keep the Water, which they drink in great Abundance——to supply the Wants thereof in the dry Desarts, &c. Vid. Memoirs, &c. Anat. of Dromedary, p. 39. See also Peyer, Merycol. L. 2. c. 3.