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beginning to climb with great activity as soon as they reach a 

 tree. 



The Graleopitheci, of the Indian Archipelago, and the 

 Anomaluri of the west coast of Africa, are in like manner 

 enabled to take long sweeping leaps from tree to tree, and no 

 doubt the investigations of travellers will bring to light other 

 animals endowed with similar powers, for when we consider how 

 large a portion of the tropical zone has never yet been 

 scientifically investigated, we have every reason to believe that 

 many still remain unknown. 



