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contrivance of thefe parts; contented as I am in 
being thought ignorant of every thing elfe be- 
longing to them. | 
As to the other parts, compofing in my opi- 
nion, the organs of generation, the conftructi- 
on of them is very remarkable ; for they feem 
as it were to confift of two diftiné glands, 
placed at the fides ofthe abdomen, and therecon- 
“nected with the gills, Fig. vitr. aa, from which 
Ifeparated them. Thefe glands are white, and 
there adheres to each of them another glandu- 
lous body, by means of a glandular tube, in 
form of a flalk 64. Thefe corpufcles are of a 
fomewhat grayer colour than the reft, and have 
each of them a confiderable flit, with a great 
many little openings at the bottom, through 
which iffues the feminal matter formed in thefe 
and the inferior particles. 
This feminal matter, after flowing from its 
glands, is conveyed to a bag that lies at one 
fide, and is reprefented under the letter 7 of 
Figure 1. Tab. LI. from whence it is dif- 
charged out of the body by two diftinct tubes. 
The mouths of thefe tubes appear very plain at 
the fides of the ftraight gut; and the matter 
they contain, may even be fqueezed out of 
them. Thefe tubes are exhibited in the figure 
and table la@ mentioned, under the letters gg. 
But I cannot as yet take upon me to fay whe- 
ther or no they ought to be called the proftafte, 
or what other organs they may properly be. 
Among the parts I am defcribing, there lies 
a glandulous body divided into lobes Tab. LIL. 
Fig. cc, visz. and connected by means of 
fome delicate membranes dd. Thefe lobes 
are again moft beautifully divided, as it were, 
into a great many branches, covered with ten- 
der, and in fome fort. membranaceous, glands, 
which in the animal itfelf forms a moft enter- 
taining fpeCtacle. From this body there arifes, 
on preffing, another kind of {permatic mat- 
ter. The lobes laft mentioned, and their 
glands, are of different colours, partly white, 
and partly inclining to gray; the glandulous 
body itfelf alfo, which I heretofore reprefent- 
ed as adhering to the Romach, feems to have 
a communication with thefe glands; for as 
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yet I cannot take upon me to affirm pofitively, © 
that it has any. Imuft have more fubjeds to 
examine, before I can determine any thing in 
regard to this and feveral other particulars re- 
lating to this Cuttle-Afth. The beft time to 
take a thorough furvey of the creature, would 
be when the {perm is not as yet arrived at its 
full maturity. But fuch a furvey would re- 
quire a great deal of attention and leifure. 
The third part belonging to the {permatic 
veffels has been already exhibited, as it appeare 
through the tranfparent fkin under the letter 4, 
inthe firft figure of Tab. LI. Fig. 3. It lies 
in the lower region of the abdomen, under the 
ink bladder. It is of a glandulous {pungy fub- 
ftance, and contains a feminal matter, which 
may be eafily prefled out of it. Its fuperior 
tegion 1s fomewhat broad, flattith, and de- . 
preffed, Tab. LI. Fig. rx. @; the inferior ter- 
minates in 2 manner in a double or forked 
point 4, fo as in fome degree to refemble the 
{hape of a heart. I cannot thew the channel 
by which this part difcharges its fpermatic 
matter, as I tore and broke it, on ftriving to 
take it out of the creature’s body. 
I could not at this time narrowly infpe@ the 
genital organs of the female Cuttle-fith, be- 
caufe I wanted a fufficient number of fub- 
jects ; and thofe, in which I obferved all the 
particulars hitherto related, were both males. 
For this reafon I cannct now take upon me to 
give a fatisfactory account of the parts vifible 
in the female, or to fay whether or no it has 
any genital organs anfwering to thofe, I have 
already defcribed and delineated, as belonging 
to the other fex. I fhall therefore attempt no 
more at prefent, than juft to give a drawing 
of the genitals of a female Cuttle-fith, which I 
fomae years ago took care to prepare and pre- 
ferve, referring to fome other time, when I 
fhall have inclination and leifure to perform 
fuch a tafk, a thorough furvey of thefe parts. 
The firft thing [here reprefent, is the ftraight 
gut a, Tab. LIl. Fig. x. to the fide of which 
adheres the channel by which the ink is dit- 
charged 4. ‘The ink bag itfelf ¢, lies upon the 
ovary dd. At the other fide of the ftraight gut 
If the milt-veflel be divided juft below the cup, that part which contains the femen extends itfelf inflantly; and though a part 
only, and not the whole of it {prings out at the opening, as it does not when fevered from thereft of the apparatus, yet upon appli- 
cation of water, it works itfelf out by degrees with a flow motion, and emerges almoft entirely out of its cafe. 
If the lower extremity of the outward cafe be cut off, it diftends the feeming ligament below the cup to an inconceivable tenuity, 
breaks it without deranging the ferew, or caufing any alterati 
inthe fuperior part of the apparatus, and goes out at the opening. 
In one of thefe experiments, the feeming ligament breaking after diftention, ftruck with fuch fmartnefs the fide of the encloding 
éafe, that, though cartilaginous, its extremity forced its way through by its elafticity, and retired twifting itfelf again into the cafe; 
which can be accounted for no other way, than by fuppofing it extremely elaflick, ‘and its force upon this occafion fomething anala- 
gous to that of a filken thread, which, if fuddenly emitted atter diftention, with a certain diretion that it receives from a peculiar 
Hight of hand, will open itfelf a paflage through a fheet of firong paper. *. 
Tf the milt-veflel be divided both above and below the femen, it emerges at the two extremities, by extending itfelf in both di. 
reCtions, which being contrary to each other, detain it in the cafe with this additional efreGt, that it renders the enclofing tube conf{pi- 
cuous, by fevering aiunder at fome of its divifions the fpongy fubftance which contains the femen. I mean by divifions the rings 
shroughout its whole leneth, refembling thofe of a Worm, though not fo regular, as they appear through the greateft magnifier of 
che common double reflecing microfcopes; yet, with the third magnifier, from which theie drawings were taken, they are feen as ex- 
hibited in the figures, like a fringe:invefting the edges. I have fometimes upon this occafion counted n0 lefs than nine feparations, 
though no more than four appear in the drawing ; for in this particular, there is no determinate regularity. 
. If the leaftorifice be opened with a lancet in the fide of the outward cafe, itinftantly conforms itfelf to it, and comes out double. 
Tis obfervabie alfo, that the ferew, upon feparation, ceafes in every refpect to operate, and lofes irecoverably its attivity, which 
is an evident proof, that the whole force of the milt-veflel is to be derived from the attion of the inferior part. 
The application of water is for the moft part neceflary, and yet the milt-veffels will often aft without it: {pirit of wine will alfo 
fuffice, though the effe& is confiderably flower, and the {pring, with which the inferior part at the clofe of the operation, when regu- 
lar, faddenly farts out, is totally impeded ; but this was underftood of a fingle milt-veflel placed upon the objeét-plate ; for when the 
whole bag 1s immerfed in fpirits, even. fo that the liquid has free accefs to the whole collection, it caufes no other alteration, than. that 
the inferior part is fomewhat extended in length, and recedes fome little from the bottom of the outward cafe. Oil has no manner of 
effeG: in any refpeét whatfoever, though more lubricating than any other liquid, 
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