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In fine, having, with great difficulty, procured 

 the feminal Hquor of another rabbit, in the very 

 ftate in which it is convieyed into the female, I 

 remarked, that it was much more fluid than that 

 which was extracted from the feminal vcflels ; 

 and the phaenomena it prefented were alfo very 

 different : For, in this liquor there were moving 

 globules, filaments without motion, and a kind 

 of globules with tails or threads, fimilar to thofe 

 in the feminal fluid of man and of the dog, only 

 thefe laft appeared to be lefs, and more adive 

 [PI. V. fig. 17.]. They traverled, in an inftant, 

 the field of the microfcope : Tficir tails feemed 

 to be much fiiorter than thofe of other fpermatic 

 animals ; and I acknowledge, that 1 was uncer- 

 tain whether fome of thefe tails were not decep- 

 tions occafioned by the track of the globules in 

 the liquor ; for they moved with fuch rapidity, 

 that I could hardly obferve them ; and bcfides, 

 the liquor, though fuflSciently fluid, dried very 

 fuddenly. 



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Having procured, at different times, the teili- 

 cles and feminal vellels of 12 or 13 rams, re- 

 cently after they were killed, I could not find, 



either 



