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turning fpits, and the like. Thefe and other examples are quoted 

 by Mr. Biitfon, who confiders thefe animals, fpoken of by voyagers 

 under dliTerent appellations, to be only varieties of the oran-outang ; 

 and in ihis light he mentions the jocko, which he favv publickly (hewn 

 at Paris. This animal always walked in an ereft pofture ; his car- 

 riap'e was rather aukvvard, his air deje6ted, his pace grave, and move- 

 ments ledate ; he had nothing of the impatience, caprice, and milchief 

 of the baboon, nor extravagancies of the monkey ; lie was ever ready 

 and quick of apprehenfion ; a fign or a word was fufficient to make 

 him do what the baboon and others would not without the com- 

 pulfion of the cudgel or whip. He prefented his hand to re-conduft 

 the perfons who came to viht him, and flalked with a ftately gait 

 before them. He fat at table, unfolded his napkin, wiped his lips, 

 helped himfelf, and conveyed the victuals to his mouth with the fpoon 

 and fork; poured the drink into a glafs, brought the tea-things to 

 the table, put in the fugar, poured out the tea, let it ftand till It was 

 cool enough for drinking, and all this with no other inftigatlon than a 

 fign or word from his mafter, and often of his own free "ccord ; he 

 was of a courteous, tender difpofition ; he fpent the fummer at Paris, 

 and died the following winter at London, of a cough and confump- 

 tion. He ate of every food indifferently, except that he feemed to 

 prefer confedionary, ripe and dried fruits, and drank wine in mode- 

 ration. 



This creature was about 2| feet tall, and, according to the tefii- 

 mony of the perfon who brought him to Europe, not above two years 

 old; Mr. Buffon, therefore, imagines that at his full Ihuure he would 

 have attained above five feet, fuppofing his growth proportioned ta 

 that of mankind. 



The pipmy defcribcd, and diflefled, by Dr. Tyfon, was not more 

 than two feet in height, and ftill younger, or under two years old,, 

 for his teeth and fome other ofiifications were not entirely formed. 



The eiuntial differences between the body of the oran-outang and 

 that of a man, are reduced by Mr. Buffon to two, namely, the con- 

 formation of the OS ilium, and that of the feet ; the bone of the ilium. 

 is more clofe or contrafled than in man. He has calves, and flefhy 

 pofteriors, which indicate that he is deftined to walk ercft ; but his toes 

 are very lung, and the heel prefled with difficulty to the ground : he 



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