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The main defigti of Nature in framing thefe Glands 
feems to refpedt the grand Work of Generation, which 
will be more evident if we examin the Analogous Or- 
gans in other Animals. In Rats thefe Glands are re- 
markably large, and are fo placed that upon the Ere- 
dion of the Penis they are compreft by its Turgefcency 
and appofition of the 0([a Puhis ; the like may be ob- 
ferv'd in other Animals, particularly in Hedg-hogs. 
Boars have thefe Glands very large, and the Matter 
they (eparate is more tenacious, and not fo tranfparent 
as in all other Creatures I have examin'd ; there is 
fbmething pecuhar in the contrivance of them in this 
Animal, each Gland being cover'd with a peculiar Muf- 
cle not unlike the Gizards of fome Fowl ; which Me- 
chanifm feems contrived for more forcibly compreffing 
of them, to difcharge their very tenacious Contents into 
the Urethra, and that not only in the time of Coition, 
but at any other time ; which feems to be more peculi- 
arly required in thofe Creatures, becaufe the paflage of 
their Urin is very long, and therefore (lands in need 
of more of this Glutinous Matter to befmear it, where-p 
by it is defended from the injuries that may arife from 
the Salts of the Urin. As the Urin of different Ani- 
mals is more or lefs impregnated with pungent Salts, fo 
the proportion of thefe Glands differ as well as on the 
account of the various lengths of their Urethras. It 
is remarkable we don't find thefe Glands in Females 
like thofe in Males,tho*they have fomething Analogous 
to them, which are defcribed in Women by De Graaf, and 
caird Proflata Mtdierum ; but the Orifices of their 
Excretory Duds opening at the exit of t\\^ Urethra, 
they ferve to defend the Njmfhd and Labia Pudendi 
only from the Urinous Saks, and difcharge their Li- 
quor in Co tUy as I have elfewhere taken notice ; the 
whole Urethra in them being fo Ihort, that the contra- 
dion 
