64 On Animals depicted on Antique Monuments. 



The third kind, placed on the extremity of a rock to the right, 

 and quite close to the preceding variety, very much resembles 

 the Magot {Simla sylvanus, Lin.), which is still to be found in 

 Barbary. Its head is narrower than that of the preceding race, 

 and the hair which covers its body is also more abundant. 



The fourth variety, which is likewise placed at the end of a 

 rock, and below the magot, at the same side of the mosaic, con- 

 nects itself with the Papio [Simia sphynx, Lin.) This baboon 

 is characterized by a prolonged snout, which is, as it were, snipt 

 off at the point, where the nostrils are placed ; and which gives 

 it some resemblance to the muzzle of a dog. The name which 

 designates this variety in the mosaic, has now altogether disap- 

 peared ; but M. Saures assures us, that he had seen it on the 

 drawings of the Commandeur Dal Pozzo. These drawings re- 

 present, in the same fragment, the tiger, the land crocodile, and 

 an animal named 'Zttrv^tx.. It is extremely probable that this 

 name was not accurately decyphered, and that it should have 

 been read 2«tu§o;, a name which remarkably corresponds to such 

 an ape as that now under our observation. It is known that 

 naturalists have reserved the name Simla satyrus to the orang- 

 outang, probably on account of its formation. 



The last variety of ape which is represented in this mosaic is 

 the Tartarin [Simia hamadrlns, Lin.), which inhabits Arabia. 

 This ape is at the left of the antique, and above the lion. Near 

 to hira is written the word Kjuttiv, which comes near to the K>i/3os, 

 or K»7r«5, or finally Kowos, by which appellations the ancients de- 

 signated a kind of ape with a head not unlike that of the lion. 

 It is perhaps on account of this circumstance that this ape has 

 been considered by Montfaucon as a peculiar species of lion. 

 At the same time this respected antiquarian is astonished, and, 

 according to his view, with reason, that the able artist to whom 

 we owe this mosaic, has placed such a dreadful carnivorous ani- 

 mal upon the branch of a tree. But his astonishment would 

 without doubt have ceased, if he had recognised that this ani- 

 mal was nothing more than an ape with a great mane, and a 

 tail as long as a lion's, to which, therefore, it had some kind of 

 resemblance. 



