86 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



and the lily. Among our domeftic animals, the 

 cat appears to be formed on the model of the ty- 

 ger, the dog on that of the wolf, the Iheep on that 

 of the camel. Every fpecies has its correfpondent. 

 Mankind only excepted. That of the monkey, 

 which fome would make a variety of the human 

 fpecies, has relations, much more direél, to other 

 animals. The man of the woods, with his long 

 arms, his meagre feet, his fleflilefs paws, his flat- 

 tened nofe, his liplefs mouth, his round eyes, his 

 abominable hairy coat, has, certainly, a very im- 

 perfect refemblancc to the Apollo of the Vatican ^ 

 and whatever inclination one might have to reduce 

 Man to the beaft, it would be difficult to find, in 

 the female of that animal, a fécond model of the 

 human figure, which (hould come near the Venus 

 de Mcdicis, or the Diana of Allegrain, which is 

 fhevvn at Lucienne. But I have feen monkeys 

 which had a fl:rong refemblance to the bear, as the 

 bavian of the Cape of Good-Hope ; or to the 

 greyhound, as the maki of Madagafcar. Some are 

 formed like little lions ; fuch is a very handfomc 

 white fpecies, with a mane, found in Brafil. I 

 prefume that moft fpecies of quadrupeds, efpe- 

 cially among the ferocious kinds, have their coun- 

 terparts in ihofe of the monkey tribe. 



Thefe fame correfpondencies are likewife dif- 

 cernible in the numerous varieties of parrots, 



which. 



