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those of the rest of the canal, and they are supplied with an 
unusual number of blood-vessels, giving these cavities a glan- 
dular appearance. The fallopian tubes, after having formed 
these oval enlargements, contract again, and pass perpendicu- 
larly through the coats of the uterus at its fundus, and termi- 
nate in two projecting orifices, one on each side of the ridge 
formed by a fold of the internal membrane. 
In the impregnated state, these parts undergo a considerable 
change ; in one of the ovaria there is distinctly to be seen a 
corpus luteum ; the ovaria become more vascular, as well as the 
oval dilatations of the fallopian tubes, which are also enlarged. 
The uterus, and two lateral canals, have their cavities very 
much increased in size, but that of the uterus is the most 
enlarged : the communication between these canals and the 
vagina is completely cut off, by the- constricted parts close to 
the vagina being filled with a thick inspissated mucus ; and in 
this state of the parts there is an orifice very distinctly to be 
seen, close to the meatus urinarius, large enough to admit a 
hog's bristle, leading directly into the uterus, where in the 
virgin state no such passage could be observed. 
The uterus and lateral canals are uniformly distended with 
an animal gelly, somewhat resembling the white of an egg; 
but the parts having been preserved in spirits during a long 
voyage, this substance must have lost considerably of its na- 
tural appearance. 
In the cavity of the uterus I detected a substance, which 
appeared organized ; it was enveloped in the gelatinous mat- 
ter, and so small as to make it difficult to form a ji dg ent 
respecting it; but when compared with the foetus after it be- 
comes attached to the nipple, it so exactly resembled the 
