CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 2. QUA DRUM AX A. 



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GARDKN OF PLANTS. PARIS! TOE MONKEYS ABROAD. 



, few instances remarkably short and thick-set and in others drawn out to a surprising degree- of 

 tenuity. Their limbs vary greatly in their proportions, but in most of them the anterior are longer 

 than the posterior : in all, they are admirably adapted to the purposes to which they are applied 

 in climbing and leaping, by the slenderness of their form, the flexibility of their joints, and the 

 muscular activity with which these qualities are so strikingly combined. But of all their organs, 

 there is perhaps none which ^exhibits so remarkable a discrepancy in every particular as the tail, 

 which is entirely wanting in some, forms a mere tubercle in others, in a third group is short and 

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