ANIMALS OF THE 



see if they would claim en* acknowledge their 

 kindred. The moment they came into each 

 other's presence, they testified their mutual sa- 

 tisfaction, and seemed quite transported at the 

 interview. 



THE MONKEY. 



THE varieties in the larger tribes of the Mon- 

 key kind are but few ; in the Ape we have seen 

 but four, and in the Baboon about as many. But 

 when we come to the smaller class, the differences 

 among them seem too tedious for enumeration. 

 These, as was observed in the beginning, are all 

 small in stature, and with long tails, by which 

 they are distinguished from the preceding that 

 entirely want the tail, or are large and have but a 

 short one. The varieties in the form and colour 

 of dogs, or squirrels, is nothing to what are found 

 among monkeys of the smaller kind. Bosnian 

 mentions above fifty sorts on the Gold Coast 

 alone, and Smith confirms the account. Conda- 

 mine asserts that it would take up a volume to 

 describe the differences of these to be found 

 along the river Amazons ; and we are sure that 

 every one of these is very different from those on 

 the African coast. Naturalists, however, have 

 undertaken to make a catalogue of their numbers : 

 and they either transmit their descriptions from 

 one to another, or only enumerate those few that 

 have found their way to Europe, and have fallen 



