654 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1723. 



of which were black, long and hollow, like those of the castor ; the toes of 

 the fore-paws were a little longer than those of the hind-paws ; the soles with- 

 out hair; the palms and soles of these fore-paws were covered with a soft and 

 tender skin ; the sole of the hinder paw was long, having a heel, at the extre- 

 mity of which there were several scales a line broad, and 5 cr 6 long, in all 

 which they perfectly agreed. 



The ears were round, like those of rats, and covered at the top with very 

 short hairs, and in this they likewise both agreed, as they did in the eyes, 

 which were very small and beautiful, but there was some difference in the 

 hair; for theirs was short, rough and knotty, blackish on the back and head; 

 and the rest of the body mixed with black and red; but in ours the hair was 

 long, in proportion to the animal, especially on the tail, and the whole was 

 beautified with white and black circles, which made it have a most lovely 

 aspect : but from the snout, down all the throat and belly to the top of the 

 tail and the inside of the legs, was of a reddish colour. The tongue of both 

 was chopped with several fissures or strokes, which made it rough to the touch. 

 The incisores were 6 in each jaw : the canini were very large, especially those 

 of the lov.'er jaw ; but they did not turn up like tusks as theirs did ; their 

 figure was not round, blunt, or white, like those of a dog, wolf, or lion, but 

 sharp, by means of 3 angles, which at the extremity formed a point sharp like 

 an awl. Their colour was greyish, and somewhat transparent: the gula was 

 large, and cleft like a hog's; and the lower jaw, as in a hog, much shorter 

 than the upper. 



By the dissection we found in ours, as the Parisian academists did in theirs, 

 that under the skin, and between the muscles, there was a great deal of fat, 

 white and hard, like tallow. Theirs, being a male, had a penis provided with 

 a bone, whose length in proportion greatly exceeded that of the bones in the 

 penis of other animals; so we in ours, being a female, observed, that it had 

 an exceedingly large matrix, and that the insertion of the urethra was on the 

 right side of ihe vagina. The epiploon in ours, as in theirs, was very small; 

 it had little fat, and was a complication of fibres and fillets, rather than a mem- 

 brane; it was not laid on the intestines, but touched on the ventricle. In 

 theirs was a very large spleen, but in ours we could discern none. We did not 

 observe, more than they, any vessels in the external membrane of the ventricle, 

 but the coronaria stoinachica, which appeared as in theirs towards the upper 

 orifice, and soon disappeared, shooting forth a few branches. The liver in 

 ours, like theirs, was somewhat blackish, and of a substance very homogene- 

 ous, without any appearance of glands: it had 7 lobes, 2 great ones on the left 

 side, and 5 other small ones on the right side. The pancreas in ours, as in 



