THE MONKEY KIND. iir 



The Baboon kind is a more diftant approach to the human form, the 

 quadruped mixing in every part : go on all fours ; when upright, fome 

 are as tall as a man, have fhort tails, long Inouts, and are brutally fierce. 



The Monkey kind are removed further, arc much lefs, tails as long 

 or longer than their bodies ; flattifh faces. 



APES.' 



THE Ouran Outang, of all animals, neareft approaches the human 

 race ; is of different fizes, from three to feven feet high. In general, is 

 Jefs than a man j but its ftrength and agility much greater. - Travellers, 

 who have feen them in their native folitudes, give furprifing relations of 

 their force, fwiftnefs, addrcfs, and ferocity. Naturalifts at home have 

 been equally ftruck with their patient, pliant, imitative difpofitions*; 

 their appearance and conformation. That obferved by Dr. Tyfon is 

 bed known, having been defcribcd with the greateft exaftnefs. It was 

 brought from Angola in Africa ; the body was covered with coal black 

 hair, refembling human, and longeft where it is longed on the humaa 

 fpecies. The face was like that of a man, the forehead larger, the head 

 round ; the jaws were not prominent, as in monkies, but flat; the ears 

 were like human in mod refpefts ; and the teeth, as alfo the bending of 

 the arms and legs. 



The differences were the flatnefs of the nofe, the lownefs of the fore- 

 head, the want of chin ; the ears v/ere too large, the eyes too clofe, the 

 nofe and mouth too didant, the thighs too fhort, the arms too long, the 

 thumb too little, and the palm of the hand too narrow. The feet were 

 more like hands than feet, and the animal bent too much on its 

 haunches. It differed in the number of its ribs, having thirteen ; where- 

 as, in man, are but twelve. The tongue, and the organs of voice, 

 were the fame, yet the animal was dumb j the brain was the fame, yec 

 he wanted reafon. — Profeflbr Camper has fince obferved a flit in the 

 gullet of this animal, through which the air, neceflary to form a voice, 

 efcapes in a whidle. 



This animal was very hairy behind j but before, the hair was much 

 thinner, the flcin appeared, and in fome places was almod bare. When 

 on all fours, it appeared all hairy ; when ereA, it appeared lefs hairy. 

 The face, hands, and foles of the feet, were without hair, and mod of 

 the forehead J down the fides of the face the hair was thick, an inch and 

 a half long. The palm»s of the hands were as long as the foles of the 



U 2 feeti 



