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fide quite over it ; which, if fnipp'd with fcilTars, 
would lay the orifice of the vagina bare, and fhew 
the perfon a perfect female, having only this morbid 
jfize of the clitoris. 
This is really the fa£t relating to the prefent fub- 
je£t ; which any one may be fatisfied of, by paffing 
a finger down under this fkin to the perinceum , and 
he will meet the orifice of the vagina , and find 
it as perfect as that of any other woman of the fame 
age. 
The vagina being thus cover’d, and the clitoris 
thus large, it is no great wonder, that fhe fhould at 
iirft fight be taken for a male by the vulgar : but it 
would feem a little too carelefs in any of the fa- 
culty to be fo deceiv’d. However if we do but con- 
fider the following obfervations, we final! find it no 
luch ftrange affair, as it now feems to the world r 
nor is it new, to find people imagine, that, fince this 
miflaken penis is imperforate, the urethra is preter- 
naturally directed to appear under it, without con- 
iidering it to be a true female urethra , in its natural 
place. 
I had the honour, on the 30th of April, 1741, to 
lay before the Society feven or eight female foetus' s i 
from about fix to fomewhat more than feven months 
growth. Each of thefe had its clitoris bigger in pro-- 
portion than the prefent girl, or any other whom I 
have ever feen ; which is the cafe with all female 
foetus's , during the greateft part of the time of gefta- 
tion. And this is nature’s common rule all over the 
world. 
Now it is impoffible, that fo many hermaphrodites 
fhould be formed at once, fince we have fo few 
inftances 
