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FOURTH the dead branches will now and then fall down 



JOURNEY. 



- upon you, having been broken off as the monkies 

 pass along them ; but they are never hurled from 

 their hands. 

 Three Monkies, commonly so called, both in the old 



classes of . _ . . 



Monkies. and new continent, may be classed into three 

 grand divisions ; namely, the ape, which has no 

 tail whatever; the baboon, which has only a 

 short tail ; and the monkey, which has a long 

 tail. There are no apes, and no baboons as yet 

 discovered in . the new world. Its monkies may 

 be very well and very briefly ranged under two 

 heads ; namely, those with hairy and bushy tails ; 

 and those whose tails are bare of hair underneath, 

 about six inches from the extremity. Those 

 with hairy and bushy tails climb just like the 

 squirrel, and make no use of the tail to help them 

 from branch to branch. Those which have the 

 tail bare underneath towards the end, find it of 

 infinite advantage to them, in their ascent and 

 descent. They apply it to the branch of the tree, 

 as though it were a supple finger, and frequently 

 swing by it from the branch like the pendulum of 

 a clock. It answers all the purposes of a fifth hand 

 to the monkey, as naturalists have already observed. 



The large The large red monkey of Demerara is hot a 



red Mon- * 



key of baboon, though it goes by that name, having a 



Demerara. 



long pensile tail.* Nothing can sound more 



* I believe pr ensile is a new-coined word. I have seen it, 

 but do not remember where. 



