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caecum is moderately long and straight. In another subject it was bent, 

 having, in one part, a little bridle or mesoeaecmn. The small intestines 

 are pretty large, but short. 



The colon passes up the right side, then across and down the left to 

 the pelvis : but, as the caecum and colon have no attachment but by 

 mesentery, the colon is therefore moveable, by which its situation and 

 course become various. 



The anus in the female appears like the termination of the vagina in 

 most quadrupeds, such as the sheep, sow, &c. But, from comparing 

 this description with others, I suppose this is rather accidental, owing 

 to the mode of contraction of the parts, than a natural formation. There 

 are two bags, one on each side of the anus, having long small ducts, 

 which open by two small points close to the verge of the anus. 



The epiploon is attached to the stomach, spleen, pancreas and duo- 

 denum, as in the dog. There was little or no fat in it, although the 

 animal itself was very fat, which fat is of the flaky kind. 



The spleen and pancreas are much as in a dog, only that the large 

 pancreas is somewhat larger, because the little pancreas is obliged to 

 be less on account of the shortness of the duodenum, or the quick turn 

 of that gut. 



The kidneys are conglobate 1 . The capsula renalis is attached to the 

 vena cava on the right side ; on the left it is prominent, not flat as in 

 the human. The urinary bladder is large and loose. 



Female Organs of Generation. — The opening of the vagina is close to 

 the antis, and indeed would seem to be within its verge ; only it is 

 capable of being pushed out, in the form of a round protuberance, with 

 a dimple in it, like the oviduct of a laying hen; but this will vary 

 according as the anus is drawn in more or less. 



A very little way within the vagina is the clitoris, which is forked, 

 or rather consists of two small pyramidal bodies standing across the 

 vagina, pointing outwards. From them a rugous hollow goes to the 

 mouth of the true vagina : within, or rather further in than the clitoris, 

 is a sulcus. 



From thence goes up the vagina, which is longitudinally ridged. About 

 2 inches up it divides into two, each passing a little outwards from the 

 other, and when they have passed for about an inch in length, each 

 opens laterally into a bag which lies on its inside. 



This bag is full of rugae ; from the inner edge of this bag, about its 

 middle, is the os tincae of one side, or horn, of the uterus. The Fallo- 

 pian tube passes along a membrane which makes a kind of bag for the 



1 [Hunt. Prep. Physiol. Series, No. 1227.] 



