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fyftems and Orders cf vefels 5 each making a peculiar 
gland or fmall Kidney 5 which according to the advantage 
of the body of this Animal:, are placed here at lengths 
not piled on one another. The ufe of them is for carry- 
ing off the Liximal and fuperflupus Serum of the blood , 
which isof fo great confequence., that even thofe Ani- 
mals that drink not at all, or butv^ry little, yet by 
Nature ajre furnilht with them* as Brattle Snake 
may be thought. When the feparation of this humour 
is made in the Kidneys g 'tis conveyed thence by the Ure* 
tevA^iViio abkdder^if the coo frequent exdufion of it might 
be inconvenient to the Animal ^ or if it be made in lefler 
qtt^ntity 1 mXozCloaca^ juft at the Anus^ and fo to be e- 
jeded. 
The Ureters in our SubjeQ: did run almoft the length of 
the Kidneys : ^being a common Trunck that r ceived 
the Teller Branches that went to each fingle Glands it is in 
part reprefented by the letters {y. v7\ ) and did both 
terminate near each other in Cloaca , making a rilVing 
there ; for our l{attle.Snaks» like Birds> had z Cloaca^ \s hich 
in the female t'^/^^r, receives the Orifices of the Ureters y 
and the two Uteri; md in part maybe fa id that of the 
'B^Uum too, which yet. had a convenient Valve that cove- 
red it. 
Near the Verge of the Cloaca ^ we obferved two other 
orifices which feemed covei^ed by the folding of the Skin , ^ . 
and thefe led into thofe two f B^^/ which I have taken ^"^^ 
the liberty to c^\\ t\it Scent'baggs. Charm is much miftaken, 
whofuppofes them to be theP^ajf^^^^^j- or Confervatorys 
of the Seed, as I ike wife thpfe he would refute that would 
have them to be other Tejiicks and I the more wonder at 
this his miftake^fince he couldjiot but have pbferv^d them 
as I have in the female Vipers x<^p 1 which fu$,ciently 
(hews his error. One of them was about an Inch long * 
and as big as a Goofe quilL batXaper towardsthe end^^ 
and from ihecolourof the Liquor it contained * appea- 
reddarkifh; the otherBagg was fomethinglefs, andit's 
colour 
