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houin ; the Britiih, baboon ; and all the modern 

 writers of Latin, pnpio. We fliall call it baboon^ 

 to diftinguifh it from the other fpecies which 

 have fmce been difcovered in the fouthern re- 

 gions of Africa and India. We are acquainted 

 with three fpecies of thefe animals : i. The ba- 

 boon properly fo called, which is found in Lybia, 

 Arabia, «Scc. and is probably the fim'ia porcaria 

 of Ariftotle. 2. The mandrill, or ribbed-nofe, is 

 ftill larger than the baboon, has a violet colour- 

 ed face, the nofe and cheeks ribbed with deep 

 oblique furrows, and is found in Guiney and in 

 the warmeft provinces of Africa. 3. The oii- 

 anderoUy which is fmaller than the baboon and 

 mandrill ; its body is thinner, its head and face 

 are furrounded with a kind of long bufhy mane, 

 and it is found in Ceylon, Malabar, and other 

 fouthern regions of India. Thus we have pro- 

 perly defined three fpecies of apes, and three 

 fpecies of baboons, which are all very different 

 from one another. 



But, as Nature knows none of our definitions, 

 as fhe has not clafled her productions by bundles 

 or genera, and as her progrefs is alvv'ays gradual 

 and marked by minute fhades, fome intermediate 

 animal fhould be found between the ape and 

 baboon. This intermediate fpecies adually ex- 

 ifts, and is the animal which we call magot , or 

 the Barbary ape. It occupies a middle ftation 

 between our two definitions. It forms the fhade 

 between the apes and baboons. It differs from 



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