MONKEYS. 



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same race, stunted by the rigors of the climate in 

 which they live. This race has prominent cheek-bones, 

 a facial angle of about seventy-five degrees, oblique eyes, 

 inclining downward at the internal angle, a yellow or 

 olive color, and straight black hair. 



" The Ethiopian race inhabits Africa south of the 

 Atlas Mountains. It is distinguished by the black or 

 very dark color of the skin, a small facial angle, not 

 much more than sixty degrees, thick, projecting lips, 

 flattened nose, and curled, woolly hair. 



" The natives of America and Australia possess certain 

 peculiarities which have rendered their classification 

 uncertain. The cele- 

 brated Blumenbach 

 made a special race of 

 the red-man, but the f 

 natural historians con- B| 

 sider them related to | 

 the Caucasians, while 

 the Australians are re- 

 garded as descendants 

 of the Ethiopian race." 

 (Pouchet.) 



MONKEYS. 



Monkeys are of all 

 animals those that most 

 closely resemble man. 

 They have been called 

 quadrumana, from the 

 fact that in some 

 species the four extremities are terminated by hands, 

 each provided with a thumb ; but in many species only 

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CHIMPANZEE (after Hartmann). 



