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Uterus] whereby it mayTisve loft its Flexures, yet 
the other Tube had not; nor could the Uterus be 
enlarged by the one in fo fhort a time; for it appears 
the Negro cohabited with her immediately after her 
Husband ; fo that the Ovum impregnated by him was 
from the other Ovarium thro’ its neighbouring Tube ; 
which might have happened in a fecond Coit with 
her Husband* as well as with the Negro. 
From this Stru&ure and Office in thefe Tubes , we 
may venture to be of Opinion, that they are truly 
Mufcles. 
XXL 
Of the Ligamenta rotunda. 
There have been various Conjcdures concerning 
thefe {lender Bodies amongft Authors ; but the greater 
Part accounted them as Ligaments. 
Spigelius , and after him T)iemerbroeck, had a No- 
tion, that they were Vafa deferentia , which they 
thought carried feminai Matter from the Ovarium 
to the Clitoris in Females : But this cannot be the 
Cafe s ffift, becaufe they have no Cavity, that I could 
find, and are therefore impervious to any Matter : 
Again, their Situation would not admit of it, fup- 
pofing they were tubular, bccaufe they arife from 
the Angles of the Uterus a little below, and for- 
ward of the Ligaments that fufpend the Ovaria , as 
at Tab. II. Fig . i .'{/) ; and, palling along thro’ the 
Duplicature of the Teritonreum on each Side, rife 
over the Edges of the Os Alibis nearly in a Line 
above the Fore Parts of the Acetabula ; and then 
running 
