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those of the Dog, continually increasing; for it is 

 very obvious, that among the smaller kinds of Mon- 

 kies, the characteristic differences do not appear to 

 be great, however they may vary in size or in 

 colour; and it is certain that the modes of living, 

 faculties, and propensities of these animals are 

 strikingly similar: so that, if we reason from 

 analogy on this subject, we may fairly conclude, 

 that different kinds of Monkies may unite and pro- 

 pagate with the same facility as the Goat and the 

 Sheep, or the almost innumerable kinds of Dogs.* 



The greater part of the cuts we have given of the 

 Baboons, Apes, and Monkies, we were fortunate in 

 procuring from living objects, or drawings which 

 might be depended on: and it is to be lamented, 

 that amongst the numbers that have been publish- 

 ed, so few should possess that peculiar character so 

 observable in the various members of this imitative 

 tribe, which it is wholly impossible to trace from a 

 stuffed skin, void of every kind of expression ; the 

 muscular parts, which should convey the idea of 

 action, being generally ill supplied, or entirely 

 wanting. 



* The following fact (communicated by J. Trevelyan, Esq.. June 5 r 

 1809,) is well authenticated. The Monkey, belonging to a captain 

 of the navy, is yet alive : 



"Pug is a gentleman of excellent humour, and adored by the 

 crew; to make him perfectly happy they got him a wife. For some 

 weeks he showed her every sort of attention. He then grew cool, 

 and jealous of any sort of kindness shewn her by his master, and 

 used her cruelly. As female hearts bear a great deal, this treatment 

 only made her wretched without killing her: he then changed his 

 battery, made up matters by degrees, and appeared as fond of her as 

 ever. One morning when the sea ran very high, he seduced her up 

 aloft, and seemed shewing her some distant object from the yard- 

 arm; when, all of a sudden, her attention being fixed, he applied his 

 paw to her rump, canted her into the sea, (where of course she was 

 immediately drowned) and came down in high spirits!" 



