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greater force and bulk than the Retrattores , for if 5 as accord- 
ing to our Author, the Penis at the Mwttus be brought back far 
beyond the ufual Pofture of the Penis in other Animals, we may 
believe it alfo to be endued not only with Antagonift Mufcles to 
thefe Retraftores. whereby to bring the Panis to fuch a Pofture 
as we fee in Horfes, but aifo to make it afcend fo far as is re- 
quifite for the Coitus. And if what 1 have elfewhere advanc'd be 
not fufficient to prove this to be no letrocoient Animal, I 
fhall add the following Arguments : Firft, The Vagina is not 
plac'd behind a little hslow the Anns , as in a Mare, but below, 
in a direct Line with the reft of the Belly, whereby there is a 
Neceffity for the Penis to afcend. 2 diy, The Cffa itmoniinata af- 
cend obliquely, which muft oblige the Penis to do fo too. \dly 9 
The Authors Acconnt of the Penis itfelf, ("for he fays ’tis big- 
ger than that of a Horfe but not fo long) fo that it can hardly 
be fuppos’d both tobe.jd backwards, afcend again, and enter the 
Vagina fo far as is requifite. 
4 i he Tefies, he fays, were not contain’d in a Scrotum or Cap- His Account* 
4 fula , but lay in th e Penmeum, clofe joined on each fide to the of the Teftes=> 
4 Penis. They were neither of the ufual ftiape, bignefs, nor in- 
4 eluded in a Proceffus of the Peritoneum. Their Shape was very 
4 like that of a Cheftnut. They were thicker on the fide that 
4 grew to the Penis, than on the oppofite. They were flat and 
* round, and not. fuitable to the other Parts of his Body, being 
4 no more than about 3 or 4 Ounces in weight. ‘I hey were 
4 joined to the Penis by a great many, at leaft 100 Seminal Tubes, 
4 which may be properly call’d Vafa deferentia , and which depo- 
4 fited the elaborated Semen in leveral Rhomboid Cells , plac’d in 
4 the Body of the Penis , which in this Creature was the com* 
4 mon and only Repofitory, where the Seed could be found. 
* Thefe Cells v/ere turgid with Sperm, and fo were the 1 ubes: 
4 The latter were very large, receiving a Block-Tin Wire of an 
* equal thicknefs with the biggeft ordinary Pins, or above an 
4 Inch, when the Tube was [freight-, as moft were; but being 
4 purfu’d farther into the Body of the Tefies y they became fmal- 
1 ler and fmaller, till they dilappeard. The Blood came into 
4 the Tefies by the V a fa deferentia. 
Our Author, as he proceeds, is fbmewhat perplex’d ; and 
therefore I chufe to continue in hh own Words, that you may p- 
the better know his Thoughts of this* part. He fays, 4 ) hough 
* thefe were fmail and di (proportionable, yet he took them to 
