244 THE PHILOSOPHY 



' Mr JrbiUhnot's Free Martin *. 



* The external parts were rather fmaller than in the cow. The 

 vagina pafled on, as in the cow, to the opening of the urethra, 

 and then it began to contract into a fmall canal, which pafled on 

 to the divifion of the uterus into two horns ; each horn pafled 

 along the edge of the broad ligament laterally towards the ovaria. 

 At the termination of thefe horns were placed both the ovaria 

 and the tefticles ; both were nearly of the fame fize, which was 

 about as large as a fmall nutmeg. To the ovaria I could not find 

 any Fallopian tube. To the tefticles were vafa deferentia ; but 

 they were imperfed. The left one did not come near the tefticle ; 

 the right one came clofe to it, but did not terminate in a body call- 

 ed the epididymis. They were both pervious, and opened into 

 the vagina near the opening of the urethra. On the pofterior fur- 

 face of the bladder, or between the uterus and bladder, were the 

 two bags called 'ueftculaefeminales in the male, but much fmaller 

 than what they are in the bull ; The duds opened along with the 

 vafa deferentia f .' 



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• « This animal was feven years old, had been often yoked with the oxen, at other 

 » times went with the cows and bull, but never ftiowed any defires for either the one 

 * or the other.' 



•|! Hunter's Obfervations on the Animal Oecononoy, p. 52. 



