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largest : [and of these] the gall-lobe is the largest : the two on the 

 right are the least, and are nearly of equal size ; and the right of all is 

 continued across the vena cava, making a kind of lobulus Spigelii. The 

 gall-bladder is attached to the liver by a thin membrane nearly an inch 

 in breadth. The spleen is very nearly of the shape and situation of 

 the human ; more so than in any animal that I know excepting the 

 monkey. The pancreas is more like that of the human than in most 

 animals, because the duodenum is short. The kidneys are natter than 

 usual, and therefore not so prominent as in many other animals ; they 

 are nearly of an equal height. 



The anus and vagina are close to one another. On the sides of the 

 vagina and perinaeum are placed two glands, or rather a congeries of 

 sebaceous glands, which makes there an irregular surface; they are 

 black with an indent in the middle. The skin around here is very 

 loose, so that these glands are sometimes inverted, and at other times 

 turned into the vagina. 



The clitoris is a prominent body, not in the vagina, but nearer the 

 belly; however, a kind of sulcus goes from it, which leads into the 

 vagina ; there is a loose skin about it which forms a kind of prepuce. 

 The opening of the urethra is just at the mouth of the vagina in that 

 sulcus that leads from the clitoris to the vagina, very much like the 

 human ; so that it can hardly be said to have any common vagina. 

 The vagina is very long and small. The ora tincae are a little promi- 

 nent in the vagina, are very oblique, or, as it were, cut aslant with the 

 long side next to the urinary bladder. The two orifices are not obser- 

 vable from the vagina ; nor is the septum in view. The two horns for 

 nearly three inches are united, and seem, on an external view, to be 

 one cavity or body ; they then divide and leave one another. At their 

 beginning they are very rugous, somewhat penniform, but [the canal] 

 becomes smooth before the division : the distinct horns are very long, 

 and smooth on the external surface. The Fallopian tube arises on the 

 capsula ovarii, and terminates in the fimbriae on the inner surface of 

 the mouth of the capsula, opposite to the ovarium. The ovarium is an 

 oblong dark body fixed to the inner surface of the capsula opposite to 

 the fimbriae. The capsula is very large, and has but a very small 

 mouth. 



