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results of the travels of M. Spix and Dr. Martius. The magnifi- 

 cent style in which the present portion is executed, is fully equal 

 to the important nature of the undertaking, though too expensive 

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The Monkeys of America are readily distinguished from those 

 of the old continent by several very prominent characters. In the 

 former the dissepiment of the nostrils is thicker, and these open- 

 ings are directed laterally, while in the latter the dissepiment is 

 thin, and the nostrils are oblong and situated in front ; the for- 

 mer are also entirely destitute of the cheek-pouches so frequently 

 met with in the Asiatic and African species, and none of them 

 possess callous nates, the only approach to this conformation being 

 in the greater or less baldness of these parts in BrachyteleSy 

 Ateles^ and Mijcetes. The number of the molar teeth affords ano- 

 ther strong distinguishing character, being limited in the monkeys 

 of the old world to five at the utmost, while the whole of the 

 American ones, excepting Jacchus and Midas, have six on each 

 side. Each of these grand divisions of the globe possesses also in 

 addition to these leading distinctions between the groups, some 

 forms peculiar to itself, and to which there have not hitherto been 

 discovered analogous ones in the other. In America no species 

 has been found entirely without a tail, similar to the Orang of the 

 old continent ; nor does the latter exhibit one possessing only 

 four fingers and no thumb, as the Ateles of Brazil, or any fur- 

 nished with the vesicular larynx of Mi/cetes^ which fills the woods 

 of America with its bellowing. The Monkeys of America appear 

 in fact to belong to a higher race ; they are less ferocious, and 

 more easily tamed, are less voracious, and especially less carnivo- 

 rous, more frequently employ their members as hands than as feet, 

 and possess a cranium more developed in its cerebral capacity, 

 and with more approximate orbits. In these latter particulars 

 they arc only exceeded by the Orang, next to which they would 



