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and enlarging gradually to its end. This bag is 
above half the length of the body, and appears like 
another body appendant thereto. I fhould be in- 
tirely at a lofs concerning this bag, did not iome paf- 
fages in Mr. Turberville Needham’s curious obfer- 
vations on the milt vefiels of the Calamary enable me 
to form fome conjectures about its ufe. 
Having difledted feveral Calamaries on the coaft 
of Portugal, without the lead indication of milt or 
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roc, and confequently without knowing which were 
male or female, he was much furprifed (about the 
middle of the month of December) to find a new 
veiTel forming itfelf in an obvious part, and replete 
with a milky juice. This was an oval bag, in which 
the milt vefiels formed themfelves gradually, the 
bag unfolding as thefe framed and difpofed them- 
felves in bundles. Before that time he had obferved 
two collateral tubes, which are alike in both fexes ; 
but a regular progrefs in the expan fion of the 
milt-bag and formation of the milt-vefiels had not 
prefented itfelf before. Thofe tubes till then ap- 
peared open at one extremity, much refembling the 
female parts of generation in a fnail, but did not 
terminate in a long oval bag extending in a parallel 
with the ftomach more than half the length of the 
fifii, as he found them afterwards when the milt vei- 
fels that filled the whole cavity were ripe for ejection. 
The fame ducts without the bag are found in the fe- 
male alfo, perhaps for the depofition of the fpawn. 
Vid. Needham's Microfcopical Di /’covert es , cap. v. 
It appears from this account that the male Cala-' 
mary (at a certain time of the year only) has a bag 
wherein the milt-vefiels are contained, and that the 
female 
