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rated by tearing gently, either with the top of the finger, or with the flat part 

 of the handle of a dissecting knife. 



As this orang was much larger than the former ones, and consequently older, 

 Dr. C. dares not venture to determine, whether these ventricles or bags, which 

 touch each other in the middle, grow together, so as to make but one bladder; 

 or whether this may be a variety: because in the orang which was alive at the 

 Hague, there was likewise but one bag still larger than these, and proceeding 

 far over the clavicles, backwards under the cucullares, and before down two- 

 thirds of the breast bone. This accidental union can probably make no essen- 

 tial variety; for as these receptacles of air do not seem to serve for any modula- 

 tion of voice, they will answer their proper purpose, whether united into 1, or 

 divided into 2 cavities. We very often see the kidnies united at the lower ends 

 across the spine in men, without its occasioning any disturbance in the secretion 

 or animal economy. Dr. C. now gives the history of the celebrated orang 

 which belonged to the Prince of Orange, and died in January 1777. This was 

 a female; when alive the head was always deep in the shoulders, and the animal 

 seldom lifted it very high up. The man who took care of her observed a great 

 quantity of air under the skin of the neck on both sides, which, being ignorant 

 of these ventricles, he took for a dangerous disorder, and the symptoms of 

 approaching death. Dr. C. felt the neck himself in December 1776, and dis- 

 covered the bags to be much larger than any he had dissected. He could 

 remove the air easily with his hand from one side to the other, and divide it, as 

 it were, into 1 parts. The bags appeared sometimes very turgid, sometimes 

 collapsed. She died not long afterwards, and was soon cut to pieces by the order 

 of Mr. Vosmaer, to be stuffed for the museum of his serene highness the 

 Prince of Orange; but, as this cannot be done without preserving the face, 

 with a part of the scull, hands, and feet, Mr. Vosmaer was obliged to cut off 

 the head and the other extremities, and to destroy the most interesting parts for 

 natural knowledge. When the remaining trunk was sent to Dr. C. he found the 

 organ of voice not in the least hurt, and quite entire. After having duly 

 examined, dissected, and delineated the viscera of the breast and belly, he put 

 it in melasses, in a fine phial, to preserve so valuable a preparation. 



There was no difference between this organ and that he delineated in the 6th 

 figure, but in extent. The united ventricles covered the greatest part of the 

 breast bone, and had several appendices, which insinuated themselves into all the 

 interstices of the muscles of the neck and shoulders. It had also 2 distinct 

 meatuses coming from the inside of the organ at the sides of the epiglottis, as 

 in fig. 5, and passing between the os hyoides and thyroid cartilage. A large and 

 vermicular process was attached to the coecum; but the intestines were very 

 different on the inside from those of men. The os femoris was kept in its 

 sockets only by a strong capsular ligament, there being no ligamentum teres. 



