GRANG- GUTANG. 



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The Organs of Generation. 



The external organs in the Orang, at the first view^ 

 scarcely bear any resemblance to the female organs in 

 the human species. It can scarcely be said that there 

 is a mons veneris. The vulva is wholly concealed, 

 when the animal is in a supine posture, by a pendu- 

 lous flap, of a pale flesh colour, which, on examination, 

 proves to be an elongated clitoris. It is composed 

 of two cavernous bodies, firmly united and contain- 

 ed in a sort of sheath, which is folded at the ex- 

 tremity. Its general form is cylindrical ; but the 

 divergence of its crura makes it a little broader at 

 its root, where alone it is attached to the pubis. 

 Its body hangs quite free for 1.5 inch from the 

 arch of the pubis, and its extremity is nearly half 

 an inch in diameter * 



On raising up the clitoris, the labia are visible ; 

 but they are thin, and do not include the base of 

 the clitoris. The vulva appears circular, with slight 

 diverging rugae passing from the entrance to the 



* The elongation of the clitoris is great in most of the si- 

 miae, and has been by some compared to the flap of Hottentot 

 women : but the latter peculiarity is now well known to be 

 produced by an elongation of the nymphm, more frequent 

 among that race than in any other part of the world.—See 

 Barrows T'ravels : and Med. Chur. Trans, vol. vii. 



