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dog : is pretty fast to the root of the mesentery where it passes to the 

 left. 



The caecum is pretty long, about half a foot, and a good deal contorted. 

 The colon is not large, but thicker in its coats than the others, which 

 increases to the anus : near its beginning it passes across the root of the 

 mesentery, to which it closely adheres. The small guts are three times 

 and one quarter the length of the animal ; the great, or colon, not half 

 that length. The epiploon adheres as in the racoon. The liver is 

 divided as in a dog : it has three hepatic ducts passing into the cystic. 

 The spleen is as in a dog. 



All the parts of generation and anus are like the dog's. The penis 

 has a bulb in the middle, a bone, and two veins passing from that bulb 

 on the upper surface. And when one blows into the veins they distend 

 the bulb, but don't fill the part of the urethra that encompasses the 

 bone before this bulb ; but when we blow or inject the urethra, the 

 bulb is filled with air or injection ; so if the blood gets into the bulb 

 from the urethra, it cannot get back, but must go by the veins men- 

 tioned above. 



The two muscles that go from the tail to the urethra are inserted 

 into the lower surface of the bulb. The prepuce is attached round the 

 bulb. It has no vesiculse seminales. 



[The Fennec, or Long-eared Fox (Canis Zerda, Zimmerman; 

 Pennant, ' History of Quadrupeds/ vol. i. p. 267 ; Riippell, 

 ' Reise im Nord Afrik,' tab. ii.).] 



A small animal, much less than a fox, but in shape, manner, &c. as 

 like as possible ; of an ash-coloured [above] white [beneath], with very 

 long ears, and, I should suppose, pretty long hair ; for the hair was 

 pretty much matted. It was said to have been brought from the East 

 Indies 1 . 



The viscera were exactly like the dog's. 



The penis had a bulb on the root of the glans, somewhat similar to 

 that in a dog ; but it did not surround it equally on all sides ; nor was 

 it at an equal distance from the end of the penis, but somewhat like a 

 ring put on obliquely. There was a bone, in the glans part, with a 

 groove, in which lay the urethra. 



1 [The species has not been found, save in Africa.] 



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