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eacrifice: perhaps some theorists will adduce this 

 common vice as an argument for the common na- 

 ture of men and monkeys. We have heard of another 

 animal of this kind, possessed of a curious propensity, 

 which might serve as an additional proof towards the 

 same end ; he was kept at large by a gentleman, who 

 kept also a pack of harriers, and to enjoy either the noise 

 or the sport, would travel to an eminence whenever 

 the hounds threw off. This love for field-sports had, 

 however, nearly proved fatal. The hounds one day 

 got upon Jerry's trail on his return home, and he 

 was only saved by a tree occurring opportunely. 

 Superior intelligence was, on this occasion, so far 

 displayed, that Jerry never afterwards enjoyed hare 

 hunting. 



These baboons having the general organization of 

 the quadrumanous animals, are necessarily arboreal in 

 their habits, though not to such an extent as the 

 other monkeys of the Old World; and they are at 

 greater ease when on the ground, on account of the 

 more accurate proportion of the hind quarters, though 

 their motions there are still awkward and constrained. 

 Their pace is generally a kind of slow gallop, per- 

 formed by alternate undulations of the whole fore and 

 hinder parts. Their agility on a tree is, however, 

 surprising when we look at their heavy bodies ; they 

 possess all the power of grasping and swinging ; take 

 immense leaps, and will in a manner tumble from one 

 part of a tree to another, before the spectator can think 



