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means they compress the cms against the symphysis. The common 

 vagina is about 3 inches long, is longer than the true vagina, is 

 covered by a strong circular muscle which becomes stronger and stronger 

 towards the mouth of the vagina, or erector clitoridis: the common 

 vagina has a number of rugae running parallel, which rugse are villous : 

 the diameter is about three-quarters of an inch. Then begins the true 

 vagina, which is very rugous on the inside, and those rugse are parallel 

 [and longitudinal]. The length of the vagina is 4| inches, about the 

 width of a goose's quill, and at the os tineas it is smooth on its upper 

 side, and a little pouched there. The os tineas is very prominent and 

 papillous. The uterus is rather thicker than the vagina, but the 

 cavity much of the same size, and that divides into two horns, each as 

 big as the [common] uterus, and longer. The cavity of the uterus is 

 pretty smooth, the rugae being very flat ; each horn is about 4| inches 

 long, and then terminates in the Fallopian tube, which is very small, 

 and runs along the surface of the capsula [broad ligament] to get 

 to the opposite side of the capsula where the ovarium is, and then 

 opens in the edge of the mouth of the capsula, which is pretty large. 

 The fimbriae are two membranes attached to the mouth of the capsula, or 

 rather to where the mouth splits into two edges opposite to the ovarium, 

 and passes along the edge of a ligamentous substance that connects the 

 ovarium to the abdominal muscles round the convexity of the kidney. 

 This bag makes a sort of capsula for the ovarium, but is open in its 

 whole length, not by a small orifice as in some. 



The ovarium is oblong, with one end attached to the end of the [uterine] 

 horn, and [the other by its ligament is] attached to the kidney and side of 

 the abdomen. The ligamentum rotundum arises from the horn of the 

 uterus about an inch from the termination ; it is not so broad as in the 

 bitch, nor does it take out an elongation of the peritoneum with it. 



Of the Eye of the Lion 1 . — To the orbit of those animals that have not 

 a complete bony orbit, there is added a ligament that surrounds the eye. 

 The eye of the lion is vastly larger than the human eye : it has ten 

 muscles ; having four supernumerary ones between the common muscles 

 and the globe, placed a little further back : they are smaller than the 

 others. The sclerotic coat is the thickest at the anterior part. The 

 optic nerve is smaller than in the human eye, and, at the entrance of 

 the optic nerve, pass blood-vessels which are continued in the sub- 

 stance of the sclerotic coat for some way, becoming fainter and fainter 

 forwards ; so that in dipping deeper and deeper in the coat, the vein runs 

 serpentine, so as to put on the appearance of a suture : one is on the 



1 [Hunt, Preps. Nob. 1710, 1730, 173L 1732.] 



