MONKEY KIND. 29*5 



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quadrupeds than of man. The body is cover- 

 ed with a brownish hair, and yellow on the belly. 

 It is about three feet and a half, or four feet high, 

 and is a native of most parts of Africa and the 

 East. As it recedes from man in its form, so also 

 it appears different in its dispositions, being sullen, 

 vicious, and untractable.* 



THE BABOON. 



DESCENDING from the more perfect of the' 

 monkey kinds, we come to the Baboon and its 

 varieties j a large, fierce, and formidable race, 

 that, mixing the figure of the man and the qua- 

 druped in their conformation, seems to possess 

 only the defects of both ; the petulance of the 

 one, and the ferocity of the other. These 

 animals have a short tail, a prominent face, 

 with canine teeth larger than those of men, and 

 callosities on the rump.t In man, the physiog- 

 nomy may deceive, and the figure of the body 

 does not always lead to the qualities of the mind $ 

 but in animals we may always judge of their dis- 

 positions by their looks, and form a just conjec- 

 ture of their internal habits from their external 

 form. If we compare the nature of the ape and 

 the baboon by this easy rule, we shall at once be 

 led to pronounce that they greatly differ in their 



* Omncs femella; bujusce et precedentium, ut et fere sequentium spe- 

 cierum, menstruali patiuntur fluxu sicut in feminis. 

 t Buffbn, vol. xxxviii. p. 1 83. 



