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the male about the middle of September. A 

 few days after copulation, the /?7(5r«j- * of the ute- 

 rus appear to be thicker and more flefliy than 

 ufual : They are, at the fame time, more lax and 

 flabby ; and, in each of their cavities, five ca- 

 runculae, or foft warts, appear. About the 26th 

 or 28th of September, the uterus is ftill thicker; 

 the five carunculae are fwelled nearly to the fize 

 and form of a nurte's nipple. On opening them 

 with a fcalpel, they appeared to be filled with an 

 infinite number of white points. Hafvey pre- 

 tends to have remarked, that, neither noW, nor 

 immediately after copulation, had the ovarium 

 fuffered any change ; and that he never could 

 dilcover, after repeated trials, the lead drop of 

 male femen in the uterus. 



Towards the end of Odlober, or the beginning 

 of November, when the females were feparated 

 from the males, the thicknefs of the horns began 

 to dlminifh ; the internal furfaces of their cavi- 

 ties were fwelled, and feemed to be glued toge- 

 ther. The carunculae flill remained ; and the 

 whole refembled the fubftancc of the brain, be- 

 ing fo foft that it could not be touched. Har- 

 vey tells us, that, on the 13th or 14th of Novem- 

 ber, he perceived filaments, like thofe of a fpi- 

 der's web, which traverfed the cavities of the 

 horns, and even that of the uterus itfelf. Thefe 

 filaments arofc from the fuperior angle of the 



horns^ 



• Two flcftiy procefTes, one of which IfTues from each fide of 

 xXxcfunduj uteris in the form of little horns ^ and are remarkably 

 large in fome quadrupeds. 



