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minentj with hairs closely set and directed out- 

 wards, separated by the flattish glabella. Upper 

 eyelid moveable, lower fixed, both pectinated with 

 projecting somewhat recurved hairs. Eyes round : 

 pupil round, without nictitant membrane. Cheeks 

 bulging, softish, coloured, their lower part some- 

 what compressed, the buccal portion looser, l^ose 

 prominent, shorter than the lip, compressed, higher 

 and more bulging at the tip ; nostrils ovate, hairy 

 within, with a thickish margin. Upper lip nearly 

 perpendicular, grooved in the middle; lower Up 

 nearly erect, more prominent. Chin protruded, ob- 

 tuse, bulging. Mouth in the male bearded with 

 bristles, which on the chin especially form a bundle. 

 'Fore teeth in both jaws sharp edged, erect, parallel, 

 close ; canine teeth solitary, a little longer, close to 

 the rest on both sides; grinders five, bluntish. 

 Ears lateral ; auricles roundish- semilunar, pressed 

 in some measure towards the head, bare, vaulted 

 above the margin ; bulging and soft below." He 

 then proceeds to state more particularly, that there 

 is no tail, and that the thumb is shorter and thicker 

 than the fingers. Man, therefore, differs from other 

 animals, as he says, in having the body erect and 

 bare, although the head and eyebrows are covered 

 with hair, two pectoral mammae, a brain larger 

 than that of any other creature, a uvula, the face 

 bare and parallel to the abdomen, the nose promi- 

 nent and compressed, the chin projecting, no tail, 

 feet resting on the heels, the males bearded on the 

 chin, the females smooth. 



As to the orang-outang, which forms his se- 

 cond species of man, he might have known that 

 having four hands, and being incapable of carrying 



