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INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES, 
L. Forrren.* 
1, A Summary of an“ Account of an Orang rap Si off 
remarkable height, from the island of Genclien: B 
Abel, M.D.’ Communicated in a letter to Dr. lnoeotare 
lit kis letter to Dr. Brewster,.the author states; “The no- 
tice is taken from a paper which I had lately the honor of 
‘to the Asiatic Society.” 
F have little to remark in addition to what the notice con- 
tains, except that the youth of the animal, was equally pro- 
ved by the state of its teeth, and by the apophysis of the’ 
bones of its hands and feet being incompletely ossified. The 
general conclusions to which I have come, from a consider~ 
tion of all the circumstances I have collected respecting this’ 
animal, is, that it is identical with the Orang Outang, de- 
scribed by Wurmb inthe Batavian Transactions ; that Cu- 
vier is a av in considering Wurmb’s animal as the adult of 
the young eastern’Orangs seen in Europe; but he is mista- 
— — —— — — aaeren spe- 
os 
icles are free from-hair. The depdousions of its ried 
however th the lowness of its forehead, the absence of a prom- 
inence of the chin, and the general proportion and orbiculari- 
ty of the face, strongly distinguish it from the symmetry of the 
human countenance. The animal is represented as waldage 
erect, as ssing a degree of sagacity approachmg to! 
man intelligence, and as‘exhibiting’ in common ar 
—e aversion and oo maeg te — ‘traitsied far as 
nde ie Gib Head SED sictiradiisbsieara entioned in the 
last pei r, page 369, which were prepared some time since, but which ap-~, 
pear to be still interesting and valuable. Prof. Griscom’s recent extracts fol- 
usu) 
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