ofilie Sacred Writings. 81 



Almost every colour can be communicated to cotton cloths ; 

 and thus garments are furnished unrivalled for splendour and 

 elegance ; such as will suit the highest rank, or please the most 

 improved taste ; but we cannot now stop to inquire about blue, 

 purple, and scarlet, with which fine linen, or rather cotton, has 

 been dyed. 



The manufacture of cotton cloths, dyed or printed with such 

 colours, has been pushed to an amazing extent, and muslins, dim- 

 mities, chintzes, ginghams, jacconets, calicos, &c. are the result. 

 Most of these names are derived from the languages of India ; 

 but to give any account of these belongs to the province of Phi- 

 lology, rather than to that of Natural History. 



Account of the Capture of a colossal Orang-Outang in the 

 Island of Sumatra, and Descriptio7i of its Appearance. By 

 Dr Clauke Abel. Concluded from page 375. 



Description of the Remai7is of the Animal. 



JlXead. — The face of this animal, with the exception of the 

 beard, is nearly bare, a few straggling short downy hairs being 

 alone scattered over it, and is of a dark lead colour. The eyes 

 are small in relation to those of man, and are about an inch 

 apart : the eyelids are well fringed with lashes. The ears are 

 one inch and a half in length, and barely an inch in breadth, are 

 closely applied to the head, and resemble those of man, with the 

 exception of wanting the lower lobe. The nose is scarcely 

 raised above the level of the face, and is chiefly distinguished 

 by two nostrils three-fourths of an inch in breadth, placed ob- 

 liquely side by side. The mouth projects considerably in a 

 mam miliary form, and its opening is very large ; when closed, 

 the lips appear narrow, but are in reality half an inch in thick- 

 ness. The hair of the head is of a reddish brown, grows from 

 behind forwards, and is five inches in length. The beard is 

 handsome, and appears to have been curly in the animal's life- 

 time, and approaches to a chesnut colour ; it is about three 

 inches long, springing very gracefully from the upper lip near 

 APRIL JUNE 1827. F 



