ON THE NATUEAL HISTORY OF THE 

 MAK-LIKE APES. 



Ancient traditions, when 

 of modern investigation, 

 into mere dreams : but 

 dream turns out to have 



Fig. 1. — Simige magnatum delicise. — De Bry, 1598. 



more nearly than they in 



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tested by the severe processes 

 commonly enough fade away 

 it is singular how often the 

 been a half-waking one, pre- 

 saging a reality. 

 Ovid foreshad- 

 owed the dis- 

 coveries of the 

 geologist : the 

 Atlantis was an 

 imagination, but 

 Columbus found 

 a western world : 

 and though the 

 quaint forms of 

 Centaurs and 

 100^ Satyrs have an 

 existence only in 

 the .realms of 

 art, creatures ap- 

 proaching man 

 essential structure, and yet as 



