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18th. Great breadth and thickness of the hand. 

 19th. Shortness of the digits. 20th. Circum- 

 ference of digit five inches and a half, vice two 

 inches and three-quarters in man. 21st. The 

 thumb is scarcely half as thick as the fore-finger. 

 22nd. The thigh above the knee is thicker in 

 proportion than in man. 23rd. The thigh is 

 only eight-ninths of the length of the humeras; 

 in man it is one-sixth longer. 24th. The foot 

 is more like a hand than it is in man. 25th. 

 Man has twelve pairs of ribs; the Gorilla has 

 thirteen. 26th. The canine teeth are largely 

 developed; the bicuspids are implanted by three 

 distinct fangs ; in the human race by two. 27th. 

 The canine teeth are developed permanently in the 

 Gorilla, but only in the male sex, when the animal 

 is still nourished by the mother, shewing that ifs 

 future condition is designed. In man there are 

 no sexual distinctions in the teeth. 



28th. The ape is a four-footed or hand- 

 footed animal; man is the only being in the 

 world formed entirely for the erect posture. 

 29th. The inner toe, the first to dwindle and 

 disappear in brutes, is developed in man into a 

 great toe, by which he has that co-ordinate 

 motion with the heel, which gives elasticity to 

 his step. 30th. In man there are in the foot 

 two bony arches, one formed by the tarsal and 

 ' metacarpal bones, the pier of the arch being at 

 the heel and great toe; the other arch transverse 

 to this, is formed by a combination of the cunei- 

 form and cuboid bones. But there are no such 



