fly ("whichis die third thing I promifed; there is nothing 
I can parallel this ^land with more, than thokfcent-ba^s^ 
or fcent-glands, I have formerly mentioned to be in o- 
-ther Animals. Fortho' the whole body may be perlpi- 
rable^ and fo diiFafe a fmell ; yet that peculiar frtor, 
which IS oblerved in all jlrong-fcented Animals^ I have 
hitherto conftantly found, more remarkably collected in- 
to one part 5 the particles, which caufe it, being fepara-* 
ted from the Mafs of blood by peculiar ^ which 
either quickly difcharge it wholly out of the body, as in 
lome: or tranfmit the lepara ted juice into /J^^/, or blad- 
ders, where it remains fome longer time, as in many o- 
ther Animals. 
This I firft took ^notice of, in Polecats-, that juft at the 
extream of the ^eHum^ were placed two bags^ filled 
with a crafle, and whitifli liquor; whofe ftink^ was fo ve- 
ry great, that I could not well endure the room, till I 
had removed them 5 and then the whole body feemed ve- 
ry inofFenfive. Thefame Ih^vepbferved in abundance 
of other Animals 5 as in all the Polecat-^i'mdi, in our 
common Catsi In a Lyon^ in Dogs-^ In a Fox, 6fC. Thofe 
bags in tho, Civet-Cat , or Hycena odorifera are nothing 
but the fame. As are likewife thofe of a MusJ^quaJh mtn- 
tioncdhy Jo ffeltn in his Infiory of the J{arities of New- 
England, For they are not tho jTeJiicles of that Animal; 
as that Letter irom Dublin in the Phtlo/ophic-TranfaHions 
N^.i27. pag. 6f3. does intimate, for having feen the 
Skins here in Town; and thofe Musl^Cods 1 I find them 
to be only the So the Cajioreum we have in 
our Shops, is not the Stones of a Beaver 5 as f ormerly re- 
puted j but of the fame nature altogether with our vJi^^w^- 
I fhouldbe too prolix, fliould linlarge upon this fub- 
jeft here, it fliall lulBce to fay, that in moil Species of 
Animals there may be obferved, fomething the fame, or 
* Vid. Dr. Ploi's Nat. Hiftory of Oxon Shire. Cap* 9. p. 305» 
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