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which at prefent is near to the fize of a foldier among us. Hi 

 body was covered with hair fomewhat thicker upon the back than 

 before. He was altogether of the human form ; nor was there 

 any thing in his fhape different from that of other men, ex- 

 cept that his arms appeared to be a little longer than ordinary, 

 which he fays was caufed by his ufmg his hands, as Vv-ell as his 

 feet, when he ran or leaped a ditch, though commonly he walk- 

 ed ered:. He fays he faw no female of the fpecies ; but he was in- 

 formed that they were like other women, and, particularly, that they 

 had their monthly courfes. He adds, that it is fuppofed by the In- 

 dians, that the time of their geftation is feven months ; but this 

 they do not know with any certainty, becaufe none of them propa- 

 gate in the ftate of captivity *, with which they do not at all agree, 

 but continue fad and melancholy, uttering no founds, bii^t fuch as 

 exprefs pain and impatience. They are not, however, he fays, wic- 

 ked or malicious, though very wild ; and they come very foon to 

 underftand what they are commanded to do. Their melancholy and 

 difcontent with their condition, he fays, throws them at laft into a 

 confumption, of which they foon die : And, accordingly, he fays 

 the one that he faw in Sumatra, and whom he obferved to be in this 

 melancholy ftate, died, as he was informed, foon after he left the 

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From thefe fads, the opinion which our author formed is that 

 they are of the human kind, but of a fpecies different from our's t • 

 for he, as well as the. other French philofophers, have adopted the 

 notion of Linnaeus, that the human fpecies is divifible into other 

 fubordinate fpeciefes ; a notion which muft appear very extraor- 

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* Ibid. p. 370. 



t Ibid. p. 395 — 371. 



|. See Vol. i. of the Origin and Progrefs of Language, p. 306. Second Edition.., 



