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of the intestines is to be met with in several animals, though their structure be 

 different ; as in the goat and deer kind, and very remarkably in a woodcock. 



The pancreas was large, with one part running towards tlie spleen, and the 

 other down by the duodenum. The spleen was 1\r inches long, and one inch 

 in the broadest part, and was of a dark red colour. The liver was very large, of 

 a bright red colour, consisting of 3 lobes ; 1 of them much larger than the third, 

 which was not to be seen, but upon inverting the liver : and here were found 

 not only at the edges of one of the larger lobes, deep incisures, which rendered 

 it jagged ; but also in the middle of the concave part of the same lobe, several 

 deep fissures : possibly for this reason, that so it might yield and give way the 

 better when inverted, as it always is, when this animal hangs by its tail. The 

 gall bladder was very large. 



The kidneys on each side were a little above l-i- inch long, about a inch 

 broad, and of the figure almost of a kidney-bean. The emulgent veins and 

 arteries were very plainly seen : but on the inside of the kidneys, towards the 

 upper part, were placed the glandulas renales, which were very large, and of 

 the same colour with the kidneys themselves, which was a deep red ; whereas 

 these glandulse renales in men and other animals are usually of a white yellowish 

 colour. The ureters were about 5-i- inches long, and were inserted into the 

 neck of the bladder of urine, first running under, then ascending by the 

 two extremities of each uterus, as they lie duplicated. The bladder of urine, 

 being inflated, was about the size of a hen's egg, and of that figure. The 

 neck of the bladder, or urethra, which was about an inch long, lay over the 

 vagina uteri; and here the urethra and the vagina uteri emptied themselves into 

 one common canal, which measured about 14^ inch in length. 



In most animals, about the kidneys there is usually observed a large body of 

 fat covering them, being contained in the membrana adiposa : but here we 

 found four large protuberances of fat, two on each side ; two of them lying in 

 the pelvis of the abdomen, near the bladder of urine, and the uterine parts ; 

 and the two others, between them and the kidneys. They consisted of large 

 regular laminae, which were easily separable from each other, in broad flakes, 

 in an uncommon manner. 



We shall proceed now to the examination of the aterine parts : for it is so far 

 from true, as some assert, that it has no uterus within, that here we find 

 not only one, but two uteri ; and these too most wonderfully contrived, and 

 far different from the common structure and make of this part in other aniiimls. 

 There were also two ovaria, two tubae fallopianae, two cornua uteri, and two 

 vaginae uteri. The ovaria were placed one on each side, near the extremities of 

 the cornua uteri, being fastened to the alae uteri, and were about the size of a 

 vetch. The vasa praeparantia were very plain ; though the greater p.irt of these 



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