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then passes out of the abdomen into the sae, and becomes pretty large ; 

 thence the vas deferens begins, which passes up and winds round the 

 bladder and the [vesicular] glands ; and where it passes in between the 

 bladder and vesicula seminahs, there is a granulated body containing a 

 mucus similar to that in the vasa deferentia ; and the duct or ducts 

 [of these prostatic glands] open into the vas deferens, near its opening 

 into the urethra, which is near the beginning of the urethra. 



The testicle is very loose, being attached to the side of the neck of 

 the bladder by a broad thin ligament, and the lower end of the epidi- 

 dymis is attached to the sac by a continuation of the same. On this 

 ligament pass the vas deferens and the blood-vessels ; and from the 

 upper edge of this ligament, near the testicle, passes up a part like a 

 collapsed epiploon which lies loose in the loins. The sac that the lower 

 end of the epididymis lies in and the lower end of testicle can be 

 pushed into, is occasionally muscular ; so that the testicles and epidi- 

 dymis can be squeezed or kneaded between the action of the abdominal 

 muscles and this muscle. 



There are two bags, resembling in figure a cock's comb, that are 

 large and flat, spreading outwards, and as it were covering most of the 

 pelvis : they contain a thick cheesy mucus, and are commonly called 

 ' vesicula? seminales :' their ducts enter the urethra just where the vasa 

 deferentia enter, but they do not communicate ; therefore they cannot 

 be ' vesiculse seminales' [as to function]. The contents are hard, and 

 some of it fills up almost the whole cavity of the urethra, moulding 

 itself to it. 



There are two [Cowperian] glands, one on each side of the rectum, 

 as in the squirrel, whose ducts pass up to the bulb of the urethra, and 

 there enter into the urethra : there is a large foramen caecum where 

 these ducts enter. 



Of the Female Parts. — The opening of the anus is not just above the 

 vagina, but is carried nearly half an inch further under the tail. The 

 vagina is pretty large. The clitoris is not within the vagina, but is 

 placed upon the ossa pubis externally. It is pretty long, covered by a 

 prepuce, and the urethra passes along it and opens at the glans, just as 

 in the penis. There are two glands, one on each side of the clitoris, 

 which throw out a thick mucus on each side of the glans. The vagina 

 is very large : there is no common vagina. The os tincse is prominent 

 and rugous. The uterus is but small ; the horns are long ; the Fallo- 

 pian tubes do not pass along the capsula ovarii, as in many other 

 animals, but form something like a ruffle around the basis of the cap- 

 sule. The capside of the ovary is not large, but wholly encloses the 

 ovary, and seems to have no opening into it ; for, by making a small 



