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ments which form the deserts of the world, the great 

 sand or silicious formations, the true skeleton material of 

 the globe, and show smaller quantities of pulverulent slates, 

 shales, and limestone, it follows that the soil is not so 

 promising or inviting to the Teutone, with his instincts for 

 growing wheat and Indian-corn. This would not deter the 

 more reckless, romantic, erratic, and unthrifty Celt, with his 

 native affinities for adventures, improvidence, hostility to cul- 

 ture, clannish habitudes and gregarious instincts. These ele- 

 ments have so impressed certain of the mountain counties 

 as to be easily discoverable to the most careless observer. 



It is in these mountain regions, however, that some of the 

 most perfectly developed specimens of men have been pro- 

 duced, Herculean in form and strength, and who have lived, 

 or are living, to be near a century old, and have shown cha- 

 racters as manly and noble as their physical frames. 



. MOXKEYS. 

 ORDER QUADRUMANA. 



Descending from man, as the great prince of mammals, 

 the next order of creation is the quadrumana or monkeys. 

 There are no indigenous monkeys on the Alleghany Moun- 

 tain in Pennsylvania, but quite a number of animals bearing 

 so strong a resemblance to that order that it might be em- 

 barrassing to the future naturalist to include them in that 

 order, and at the same time omit to mention the fact that 

 they are generally supposed to belong to the order Bimana, 

 genus Homo, or Man. Of the numerous order quadrumana, 

 as described by Martin in his great work on "Man and 

 Monkeys," the genus of anthropoid apes, to which this ani- 

 mal is allied, is either the Pithecus satyrus (orang,) the 

 Hylobates leucogenys (Gibbon,) or Troglodytes (chimpan- 

 zee.) They have many points in common with the senii- 

 terrestrial baboons, but their connection with the niam 

 mams, or Ghilanes* is problematical, as they are of a differ- 



* For an account of this race, see the French traveler, C. L. 

 du Couret's or Hadji-abd-el-Hained-Bay (as he called himself) 



