450 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS 



ANIMALS OF THE MONKEY KIND. 



WE now come to the description of a numerous 

 race of animals, consisting- of a greater variety of 

 kinds, and making nearer approaches to the human 

 species, both in form and action, than any other 

 class of quadrupeds. 



Monkeys are found only in the warmest parts of 

 the world, and chiefly in the torrid zone. They 

 abound in the woods of Africa, from Senegal to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to Ethiopia; 

 in all parts of India, and its isles; in the south of 

 China; in Japan; and in South America, from the 

 Isthmus of Darian as far as Paraguay. A species 

 or two are also met with in Arabia and the pro- 

 vince of Barbary. 



On account of the numbers and different appear- 

 ances of these animals, they have been divided into 

 three classes, and described under the following 

 denominations; viz. APES, or such as have no 

 tails; BABOONS, or such as have short tails; MON- 

 KIES, or such as have long tails. 



In the APE kind, we see the whole external 

 machine strongly impressed with the human like- 

 ness, and capable of similar exertions ; they walk 

 upright, their posteriors are fleshy, their legs are 

 furnished with calves, and their hands and feet are 

 nearly like the human. 



In the BABOON we perceive a more distant re- 

 semblance of the human form: he generally goes 

 upon all four, seldom upright, but when constrained 

 to it in a state of servitude. Some of them are as 



