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from their often using their hind as well as their 

 fore feet as hands, and many of them even their 

 tail. This tribe includes the Monkeys, Apes, 

 and Baboons, and though these do not imitate 

 man, by catching his phrases, like the birds last 

 named, yet they mimic all his actions. I have 

 often thought, when I have examined figures of 

 this tribe, that their features are typical of the 

 different kinds of face observable in the human 

 species : as far as relates to body they approach 

 us, but in the spiritual part of our nature, ele- 

 vated by high expectations, and by knowledge 

 not confined to this globe on which we tread, 

 but traversing the heavens, and penetrating in 

 thought to the throne of Him who sitteth upon 

 them, we infinitely exceed them. 



Those animals that are of a predaceous or car- 

 nivorous character, are more widely dispersed, 

 than many of the herbivorous ones, in fact they 

 are co-extensive with their food, I do not mean 

 specifically, but generically. Though the Lion 

 and the Tiger, and the larger feline animals are 

 generally tropical, yet the Cat is naturalized 

 every where. Though the Hyaena and the Jackal 

 shrink from the temperature of the greater part 

 of Europe, yet Wolves and Foxes, as well as the 

 great majority of the canine race, are found in- 

 digenous, or have been formerly indigenous, in 

 almost every part of it. 



