The monkey inhabits the woods both of 

 Africa, and India j and, what is fmgular, 

 where he choofes to take pofleffion, he may 

 be called the lord of the foreft. The lion 

 himfelf gives way; not being able to bear, 

 as travellers report, the incefTant tricking of 

 that mifchievous brute ; whofe agility prevents 

 correction . But the human figure is of all 

 others, the object of his higheft derifion. If 

 fuch a phenomenon appear in his domains, 

 the whole fociety are called together by a 

 whoop. From curiofity they proceed to in- 

 folence; chattering, grinning, and throwing 

 down fruit, cones, withered flicks, or any 

 thing their fituation furnifhes. Fire-arms can 



fcarce reprefs them. In fome forefts where 



the ape, the baboon, and other larger fpecies 

 of this difgufting tribe inhabit, the traveller 

 muft be well guarded to pafs in fecurity. 



In fouth-America, in the wide forefts of 

 Brazil, and Paraguay, along the banks of 

 the Amazon, the cougar, a fpecies of tyger, 

 is the moft formidable animal. Poflefled of 



amphibious 



