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whereas, in man, there are but twelve. The vertebrce of the 

 neck also were shorter, the bones of the pelvis nanower, the or- 

 bits of the eyes were deeper, the kidneys were rounder, the urin- 

 ary and gall-bladders were longer and smaller, and the ureters of 

 a diiTerent figure. Such were the principal distinctions between 

 the internal parts of this animal and those of man ; in almost 

 every thing else they were entirely and exactly the same, and 

 discovered an astonishing congruity. Indeed, many parts were 

 so much alike in conformation that it might have excited wonder 

 how they were productive of such few advantages. The tongue, 

 and all the organs of the voice, were the same, and yet the ani- 

 mal was dumb; the brain was formed in the same manner with 

 that of man, and yet the creature wanted reason : an evi-dent 

 proof (as Mr Buffon finely observes) that no dispositions of 

 matter will give mind; and that the body, how nicely soever 

 formed, is formed in vain, when there is not infused a soul to 

 direct its operations. 



Having thus taken a comparative view of this creature with 

 man, what follows may be necessary to complete the general de- 

 scription. This animal was very hairy all behind, from the head 

 downwards ; and the hair so thick that it covered the skin al- 

 most from being seen : but in all parts before, the hair was much 

 thhmer, the skin everywhere appeared, and in some places it 

 was almost bare. When it went on all-fours. As it was some- 

 times seen to do, it appeared all hairy ; when it went erect it 

 appeared before less hairy, and more like a man. Its hair, 

 which in this particular animal was black, much more resembled 

 that of men than the fur of brutes ; for, in the latter, besides 

 their long hair, there is usually a finer and a shorter intermixed ; 

 but in the oran-outang it was all of a kind; only about the 

 pubes the hair was grayish, seemed longer, and somewhat differ- 

 ent; as also on the upper lip and chin, where it was grayish like 

 the hair of a beard. The face, hands, and soles of the feet, 

 were without hair ; and so was most part of the forehead : but 

 down the sides of the face the hair was thick, it being there 

 about an inch and a half long, which exceeded that on any other 

 part of the body. In the palms of its hands were remarkable 

 those lines which are usually taken notice of in palmistry ; and, 

 at the tips of the fingers, those spiral lines observed in man. 

 The palms of the hands were as long as the soles of the feet ; 



