44 THE NOMENCLATURE 



(he firfl by having a long muzzle and large ca- 

 nine teeth ; and, from the fecond, becaufe it ac- 

 tually wants the tail, though it has an appendix 

 offkin, which has the appearance of a very 

 fmall tail. Of courfe, it is neither an ape nor a 

 baboon, but, at the fame time, partakes of the 

 nature of both. This animal, which is very 

 common in Higher Egypt, as well as in Barbary, 

 was known to the ancients. The Greeks and 

 Romans called it cynocephalus, becaufe its muz- 

 zle refembled thatof a dog. Let us now arrange 

 thefe animals in their proper order : T\\q orang- 

 outang is the firft ape ; the pigmj the fecond ; 

 and the gibbon, though different in figure, the 

 third ; the cynocephalus or magot the fourth ape, 

 or the firft baboon; the papio is the firft baboon ; 

 the mandrill the fecond ; and the ouanderou, or 

 little baboon, the third. This order is neither 

 arbitrary nor fi^Stitious, but agreeable to the 

 fcale of Nature. 



After the apes and baboons, come the giunonsy 

 or monkeys; that is, animals refembling the apes 

 and baboons, but which have tails as long, or 

 longer than their bodies. The viOVi\ gucnon has, 

 for fome ages, had two acceptations different 

 from that we have here given ; It is general- 

 lyemployed tofignify fmall apes, and fometimes 

 to denote the female of the ape. But, more an- 

 ciently, we cdi\\t{\finges,or7nagots, the apes with- 

 otit a tail, dLwA gueJions, or mones, thofc which 

 had long tails. This fadl appears from th? 



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