ANIMALS OF THE 



nose ; the next, in the lowness of the forehead, 

 and the wanting the prominence of the chin. 

 The ears were proportionally too large ; the eyes 

 too close to each other ; and the interval between 

 the nose and mouth too great. The body and 

 limbs differed, in the thighs being too short, and 

 the arms too long ; in the thumb being too little, 

 and the palm of the hand too narrow. The feet 

 also were rather more like hands than feet ; and 

 the animal, if we may judge from the figure, bent 

 too much upon its haunches. 



When this creature was examined anatomically, 

 a surprising similitude was seen to prevail in its 

 internal conformation. It differed from man in 

 the number of its ribs, having thirteen ; whereas 

 in man there are but twelve. The vertebras of 

 the neck also were shorter, the bones of the pelvis 

 narrower, the orbits of the eyes were deeper, the 

 kidneys were rounder, the urinary and gall blad- 

 ders were longer and smaller, and the ureters of 

 a different figure. Such were the principal dis- 

 tinctions between the internal parts of this ani- 

 mal and those of man ; in almost every thing else 

 they were entirely and exactly the same, and dis- 

 covered an astonishing congruity. Indeed, many 

 parts were so much alike in conformation, that it 

 might have excited wopder how they were pro- 

 ductive of such few advantages. The tongue, 

 and all the organs of the voice were the same, 

 and yet the animal was dumb ; the brain was 

 formed in the same manner with that of man, 

 and yet the creature wanted reason : an evident 

 proof (as M. Buffon finely observes) that no dis- 



