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of those of both sexes. The eyes certainly sparkled with desire. 

 Now had this been a man with imperfect organs, there might 

 indeed have been the characteristics of the female strongly 

 marked, but certainly not those of the male ; and vice versa : 

 nor would the eyes in either case have expressed the warmth of 

 passion. On this account I am disposed to believe it in posses- 

 sion of at least one testis and one ovarium. The best judges in 

 Paris pronounce it a woman ; the best in London, a man. With 

 respect to the genitals I own myself to have felt disinclined to 

 examine them at a first interview, but understand there was a 

 clitoris some millemetres in length — with an imperforate gland, 

 and an urethra running along it inferiorly (a structure perhaps 

 unknown in monstrous formation of simply female organs), and 

 opening underneath by five small holes. A passage existed at 

 the foot of the clitoris into which a catheter passed, but which 

 afforded no urine. The catheter introduced into it might be di- 

 rected downwards behind a membrane that united the labia below 

 — where the opening of the vagina is commonly found, and would 

 probably be divided with advantage, as the menses come through 

 this passage. In fact both they and the urine pass through 

 it and the five holes of the canal that is under the clitoris, and 

 the urine is reported to come through both, although the catheter 

 could bring none and neither passed into the bladder nor ex- 

 cited a desire to make water, if introduced into the lower canal. 

 Whence there is probability in the conjecture that the urethra 

 communicates with this passage within, by similar openings to 

 those observed externally in its lower part. 



Lefort has been seen to menstruate, and those who have not 

 inspected the pudenda when visiting it at this period, have de- 

 clared the countenance to be pale and languid as in a menstru- 

 ating woman. It boasts of having menstruated ever since eight 

 years of age, of having desires for each sex, and of being able 

 fully to enjoy both. But a little exaggeration of this kind must 

 be expected. The attendant told me that it had kept a young 

 French girl some years. Whether seminal discharge takes place, 



