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to examine my notes until some considerable after the day on which they were made, and I confess I was not from them able to discover whether the testicles are placed anterior or posterior to the penis in the line of the body's length. But as no impression of any peculiarity of position has ever lain upon my mind I believe that they must be situated posterior though considerably higher from the ground than it.
It should be mentioned that at the time I examined the wombat I had full assurance of touching at Furneaux Islands before our return to Port Jackson; but foul winds in passing through the strait, and the expiration of our limited time of absence prevented it. Under this idea I just ran my hand over the viscera of the abdomen and chest, but of course made no notes. The stomach is of a large size and the intestines are long and large, with an appendix vermiformis of the size of the human. The alimentary canal occupies three fourths of the cavity, the eye is