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with scales and shells, to rank with inserts ; and 

 still, on a third, we see them descending into the 

 waters, to live among the mute tenants of that 

 element. We now come to a numerous tribe, 

 that, leaving the brute creation, seem to make 

 approaches even to humanity ; that bear an awk- 

 ward resemblance of the human form, and dis- 

 cover some faint efforts at intellectual sagacity. 



Animals of the monkey class are furnished with 

 hands instead of paws ; their ears, eyes, eye-lids, 

 lips, and breasts, are like those of mankind ; their 

 internal conformation also bears some distant 

 likeness ; and the whole offers a picture that may 

 well mortify the pride of such as make their per- 

 sons alone the principal object of their admira- 

 tion.* 



These approaches, however, are gradual ; and 

 some bear the marks of this our boasted form 

 more strongly than others. 



In the Ape kind we see the whole external ma- 

 chine strongly impressed with the human likeness, 

 and capable of the same exertions : these walk 

 upright, want a tail, have fleshy posteriors, have 

 calves to their legs, and feet nearly like ours. 



In the Baboon kind we perceive a more distant 

 approach to the human form, the quadruped mix- 

 ing in every part of the animal's figure : these 

 generally go upon all-fours j but some, when up- 



[* This numerous tribe have four close set fore-teeth in each jaw ; canine 

 teeth on each side in both jaws, which are longer than the rest, and some- 

 what remote from them ; and the grinders are obtuse. The feet are formed 

 like hands, generally with flat nails ; and, except in a few instances, they 

 have four fingers and a thumb.] 



