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fleding towards its Origin, and again refuming its firfl 
Way, after being contorted ‘and implicated in many 
and various Windings and Curves, widens and ftrai* 
tens here and there, until at length becoming 
more and more capacious, it forms a little Bag, for 
which a whitilh, fine, fmooth Canal, about an Inch 
long, covered with pretty thick Coats, piercing thro* 
the Skin 1 1 Inch from the Mouth, prepares an Out- 
let, marked under the Belly with a Caruncle (Ffg» i. 
f. Fig, 3 md 4. b.) This little Canal may be, not 
improperly, called the Ovidu^ or Fagina, 
The Colour of thefe Parts is not every where the 
fame ; for of whitifh at the Beginning, in the Progrefs 
it infenfibly becomes darker : And at length, where 
the Vefiel acquires a greater Volume, and especially 
where it ftretches forth into the Bag, it is of a Chef- 
nut Colour. And as far as this Chefnut Colour con- 
tinues, the Veifel is thick fluffed with Myriads of 
Eggs, and therefore is to be called the Ovary, 
The Eggs, whofe Number is certainly incredible, 
feen with the naked Eye, refemble a Magma of a 
brown Colour ; but viewed through thofe Microfcopes, 
which in the Engjijb apparatus bear the fecond and 
third Number,' they are of the Figure marked a and^ 
in Fig, 
The Surface of the inner Skin which inclofed the 
abdominal Contents, was all befet with fmall whitifh 
Bladders, of different Figures and Bulks, pouring 
out a Lymph upon tearing them. Thefe were in the 
Females. 
Though the Integument of the Mate be marked 
with annular Fibres, and as many ChefnUNcoloured 
Lines as that of iht' Female^ throughout its whole 
* Length, 
