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beginning of the penis ; but the termination of the penis and anus are 

 pretty near one another, on account of the penis being turned backward 

 upon the rectum, where it adheres to the vesicula seminalis. There are 

 two little canals like veins united to it. The skin between the penis 

 and anus is red about the cavities and these glands : it is not covered 

 with hair. The erectores penis are very strong and lie upon the out- 

 side of the crura ; and on the side next to the pubis some of the external 

 fibres arise from the ischium ; the other or anterior part arises from the 

 crura near this attachment to the pubis, and passing a little way upon the 

 crura, are lost in the crura, the conjunction of them forming a middle 

 tendon. Just where these are inserted, they are covered by a thick, 

 strong, and short muscle, which arises from the symphysis pubis, where 

 the ligamentum suspensorium is inserted, and passes along the upper 

 part of the penis, forming a small tendon, which runs along the upper 

 part of the penis, and at last is lost insensibly in the body of the penis. 

 This last muscle might be called a ' suspensorium penis,' if it was in the 

 human, for it is just in the place of that ligament ; but it helps to 

 strengthen the penis in erection ; for the tendon passes along the con- 

 vex surface near the anterior end, and by pulling the muscle the curved 

 part is straightened. These muscles exist also in the guinea-pig, 

 squirrel, &c. 



The male parts of generation of a hare and rabbit are very much the 

 same. 



The Female Parts of a Hare. — The external lips of the vagina are 

 continued close to the anus. There is no hair on the sides of the lips, 

 and but little on the anus ; however, there is a great deal on the upper 

 side of the anus between it and the tail, and a great deal on the lower 

 end of the slit of the vagina, as it were on the os pubis, so that the lips 

 and sides of the vagina are bare, but these two tufts of hair in the 

 natural state approach one another, by which means the anus and mouth 

 of the vagina are bent towards, and in some measure oppose one another. 

 The glands on the sides of anus and vagina are made up of different 

 sorts of substance ; the most external is of a yellow colour, something 

 like the capsula renalis : the under part is of a brownish colour, very 

 much like the kidney. 



The clitoris is pretty long 1 , has a very strong coat, and terminates in 

 a broad thin glans, which is pointed, and projects in the vagina towards 

 the mouth of the vagina : it is cavernous. The common vagina is very 

 long, about 4 inches ; the proper vagina 2 about 2 inches ; there are very 



1 [Les lievres males et femelles ont dix inamelons ; sometimes one or two are 

 wanting.] 



- [This part Daubenton, like Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, regards as the Corpus Uteri, 



