THE _GLANDULÆ_ or _CARUNCULÆ Myrtiformes_ are constituted of the contracted _Fibres_ of the dilacerated _HYMEN_; and are situated on the Side opposite to the _URETHRA_, next the _ANUS_, in the _FOSSA Magna_, or _Navicularis_; being the same Place where the _HYMEN_ was at first established. _These_ are small fleshy _Eminences_, and are sometimes _Two_ or _Three_, and sometimes _Four_ or _Five_ in Number: _They_ are deficient in _GIRLS_, and _defaced_ in _those WOMEN_ who have had _CHILDREN_. THE _VAGINA_ or _Neck_ of the WOMB, is a long and round _Canal_, reaching from these _Caruncles_ to the _Orifice_ of the WOMB; not very unlike a _strong small Gut_: Its _Orifice_ is narrow in _Virgins_, and in _All_ Women much narrower than its _other_ Parts: It’s _Substance_ (according to _Ruysche_’s Observations) is _membranous_, _nervous_, _papillary_, and _wrinkled_ WITHIN; which consequently must be of an _exquisitive_ SENSE: In _Virgins_ the _WRINKLES_ are very _Large_, especially in the _Fore-Part_; but after frequent _Embraces_ they are _Less_, and after repeated _BIRTHS_, they entirely _disappear_. THE _VAGINA_ lies betwixt the _Bladder_ and the _strait Gut_, or RECTUM; with which last it is wrapt up in the same common _Membrane_, from the _PERITONÆUM_, adhering to it, all its _Length upwards_, from its _Orifice_ to that of the WOMB, and quite round on the _lower Side_, as it does to the Neck of the _BLADDER_ _above_. IN MAIDS, the _VAGINA_ is about Five Inches _Long_, and one and a half _Wide_: But in _CHILD-BEARING-WOMEN_, it cannot be determin’d; because it _lengthens_ in the time of _PREGNANCY_, and _dilates_ in time of _BIRTH_; having likewise (in all) some little _Holes_ or _Ducts_ in it, which discharge a _mucous Liquor_. The _VAGINA_ Serves also, in fine, for a necessary _Conduit_ to the _MENSTRUA_ and _LOCHIA_, as it does for a proper _Passage_ to the _INFANT_, &c. THESE are, in short, all the _external Parts_ of _GENERATION_ in _Women_; and _these_ have all their proper respective _Functions_ assign’d them by NATURE; contributing conjunctly and severally to the _Charms_ of _COPULATION_: Which _ACTION_ alters the very _Course_ of the BLOOD, and _Motion_ of the _Animal SPIRITS_; and consequently sets all the describ’d _Parts_ in full _AGITATION_. Namely, thus