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paffed towards each groin a part fimilar to the round li- 
gaments in the female, which were continued into the 
rings of the abdominal mufcles ; but with this difference, 
that there were continued with them a procefs or theca of 
the peritoneum , fimilar to the tunica vaginalis communis 
in the male afs, and in thefe theca were found the 
tefticles: but I could not obferve any vafa defer entia 
palling from them. 
Here then we found in the fame animal the parts pe- 
culiar to each fex (although very imperfect), and that 
part which is common to both (but different in each) 
was a kind of medium of that difference. 
Something fimilar to the above I have feen in fheep, 
goats, See. ; but I fhall not at prefent trouble the Society 
with a defcription of hermaphrodites in general, as it is 
a very extenfive fubjeCt, admitting of great variety, 
which would make it appear a production of chance, 
whereas the intention of this paper is to fhow a circum- 
flance which takes place in the production of herma- 
phrodites in cattle, and which appearing to be an eft a- 
blifhed principle in the oeconomy of propagation of that 
fpecies of animal, and not a production of chance, is, 
perhaps, peculiar to them, and, probably, the only way 
in which they are ever produced in this fpecies. 
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