3s3 JAMAICA.' 



■iiiteftlnes, the fplne, the fenfes, &c. do not feem to indicate, thnt the 

 •Supreme Being, at the crcatioit of animals, intended to make ufe of 

 -one model; varying ir, at the fame time, in every poihijie manner, 

 ^that man might equally admire the fimplicity of the plan, and the mag- 



K-^ .nificenceof the execution [(1^]. 



■^ When we come to examine the exterior figures of an_v particular 



clafs of animals, we find them marked with a moft remarkable vari- 

 ety. To inrtance, for example, the dog kind, who have fome of them 

 fo near an affinity to. the wolf and fox ; there is more difference be- 

 tween the mailiff and lap-dog, than between the horfe and the afs ; 

 •;and what two anim:ils can be more unlike, than the little black Giii' 

 ney dog, of a fmooth fkin, without a lingle huir upon it, and the rough 

 Ihock dog r From thcfe let us pafs on to the monkey-kind, or anthrO' 

 fomorphits, fo called by naturalills, becaufe they partake more or lefs 

 .of the human fhape and dlfpofition ; we here obferv'e the palpable 

 link which unites the human race with the quadruped, not in exterior 

 form alone, but in the intelleftual quality. The variety of them is fo 

 •great, that a complete catalogue has never yet been made. Condamine^ 

 who traveled through the country of the Amazons, faw fo many, 

 that he affirms, it would take up fome length of time to write out a 

 lift of their names. As t'lir however as they are yet defcribed, we 

 trace them from the cynocephalus, which mofl: refembles quadrupeds 

 in the fiiape of its head, through a variety of the ape kind, which 

 have tails and pouches, to thofe which have fliorter tails, and fome- 

 what more of the human vifage ; to thofe which have no tails, who 

 have a callous breech, whole feet ferve occafionally for hands, which 

 conftitute them of the order oi qiiadriuiuiins, or four-handed animals, 

 and who more commonly move on all-ti)ur than ereft, to tlie cephiis, 

 or gibbon, of Bulfon ; from thcfe we come to the o'-an-outafig fpecies, 

 who have fome trivial refemblance to the ape-kmd, but the ftrongeft 

 fimilitude to mankind, in countenance, figure, ftature, organs, eredl 

 pofture, anions or movements, fotid, temper, and manner of living. 



The few which have been brought into Europe, being extremely 

 young, were, from a popular error, denominated pigmies ; for it is 

 affirmed on every authority, that they grow to the ordinary fize of 



\h] Buffon. 



man. 



