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stomach of an animal simply [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] when it begins to feed on itself  [[encircled]] 310 [[/encircled]]

What we digest consists essentially of the starch fat gluten & mineral matter wh. as we have seen all varieties of nutricious food contain in greater or less proportion [[encircled]] 311 [[/encircled]]

The carnivorous races living upon flesh, wh. is more easily converted into chyle - the stomach is small & the alimentary canal comparatively short. [[encircled]] 312 [[/encircled]]

The potato contains larger proportions of potash & soda but much less of
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lime & other necessary mineral ingredients than either wheat or oats [[encircled]] 326 [[/encircled]]

Upwards of half the saline matter of the blood (57 percent) consists of common salt [[encircled]] 327 [[/encircled]]
Cannot live without salt [[encircled]] 327 [[/encircled]]

Inhabitants of the Colds of Siberia & heats of some parts of Africa eat no salt  [[encircled]] 379 [[/encircled]]

Alleutian Islands (i.e. Beering's & Copper Islands) of the Rat-Islands Andreanowsky Islands & Prebülowüni Islands, of Unalaska & KADIAK are all Esquimo
Richardson [[encircled]] 362 [[/encircled]] Vol I.

Transcription Notes:
Bottom section is quote from "The Natural History of the Varieties of Man" by Robert Gordon Latham and should be correct (including misspelling of Behring, rendering of Andreanof, etc.)