who
know but little of the Parts they are compos'd of, and of these kinds of
Hermaphrodites, _Columbus_ says he examin'd all the Parts, and found no
essential Difference from other Women; the only Sign that they are Women
is, that they suffer the flowing of their Terms every Month.

The fifth Kind, are those that have neither the Use of the one nor the
other Sex, and have their privy Parts confus'd, and the Temper of Man
and Woman so inter-mix'd, that one can hardly say which is most
predominant; but these sorts of Persons are rather a kind of Eunuchs
than Hermaphrodites, their _Penis_ being good for nothing, and their
Terms never flowing. Of this Kind was the _Bohemian_ Woman, that pray'd
_Columbus_ to cut off her _Penis_, and to enlarge her _Vagina_, that she
might the more freely, as she alledg'd, join amorously with a Man.

These are the several Sorts of Hermaphrodites, mentioned by Monsieur
_Venette_; and the four first of them, tho' they have the Name, yet
Nature has not refus'd them the Advantage to make use of their Genital
Parts, and to Engender as others. The Male Hermaphrodite may get
Children, and the Female conceive; so that neither the one nor the other
differ from Men or Women, but only by a superfluity or a deficiency of
Parts, and such as does not disturb the business of Generation.

The fifth Sort are call'd perfect Hermaphrodites, because they are
incapable of using either of the Sexes; but some Persons fancy there are
a sort of Hermaphrodites which can make use of both Sexes, and Engender
both ways, though this is easily confuted, when we consider that one of
the privy Parts of an Hermaphrodite is generally useless, as being
contrary to the Laws of Nature, and what confusion would it be, to find
in one and the same Person a Man's and Woman's Testicles, a Womb and a
_Penis_? A Woman's Genital Parts and a Man's are too different to admit
of such an Union, and to change the Use upon any occasion.

Agreeable to the list mention'd Opinion, some Naturalists will have it,
that an Hermaphrodite, which is very vigorous as to both Sexes, may
Engender within himself, without the Company of another Person, having
Matter to form a Child, a Place to conceive it, and proper Liquid for
Nourishment: In the same manner as _Jack Hares_ engender once in their
Lives, and that _Stags_ do the same, which is maintain'd by the learned
_Langius_: But these Generations are both impossible and ridiculous, the
Naturalists mu