506 The ^^Qatural Hillory 
licular Repo/itorks or Bags^ near the exit of the Intefiinum re^um^ 
wherein they keep thofe humors or liquors^ that are the Vehicles of 
their refpeftive [cents, 
229. This he firft obferved in a male Pol-cat he differed here 
Oxford, Febr. 4. i ^74. and was further confirmed therein the 
fecond of March in the year following, 1675. in a female Pol-cat, 
at the opening whereof I was prefent my felf ; fince which times, 
he has found the fame in a Fox dilTefted in the prefence of Dr. 
Grew ; and fince again in Weafels, Cats, isrc. the veficlesor little 
bags being found by fairs, one on each fide the gut ; and accord- 
ing to the bignefs of the Animals, largeft in the Fox, and leaft in 
the IVeafel. 
230. Thofe of the -^o/-c^/ were about the bignefs of Peas, of 
a fomwhat oblong figure-) and a ycllowifh colour, and feemed to 
confift of a double {\xh^2.nct, glandulows and membranous ; the;;zm- 
branou6 toward the necks of the bags being cover'd with glandu- 
les, huttowd.Tdt\\e fundus wholly membranous, reprefenting upon 
being emptied, orbicular mufcular Fibres, which he fuppofes by 
tontra^ion force the contained humor out into the gut* 
231. Theufeof theGtoi^M/tf^hedoubtsnot to be, to feperate 
the humor from the mafs of blood (all fecretions in the Body being 
performed by the help of Glandules) and the necks of the bags'im" 
mediatly emptying themfelves into the^K/,without any continued 
duSius ; and being placed near the SfhinCier Ani, made him think . 
the contained humor in refped of the Animal, to be excrementitious. 
In this Pol-cat it was of fomwhat a thick confifience, for the moft 
^2sx.vphite, but in fome places of 2. greenijjj yellow colom, and up- 
on preffing out, of fo ftrong a [cent, that I could fcarce (I well re- 
member) endure the room ; which once removed from the body, 
we could not perceive any confiderable ill 7^e//inany of the o- 
ther farts. 
232. In a Cat that he diffefted (which was but a young one, 
and a female) the bags when blown up were not above the cit^ of 
ordinary Peas, feated like the former on both fides the intefiinum ' 
return, juft under the SphinSIer Ani, which covering them, he fup- 
pofes might both occafion their not being noted before, and help 
in the expreffion of the humor out, which (he obferved in the 
Gat) was not into thtgut, but in the limb or margo Ani, the orifices 
of the ^^^^ terminating there, fo that he plainly perceived them 
before 
