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any comparifon can be inftituted. Now, all 

 thefe monkeys, as well as the apes and baboons, 

 have general and particular ehara£teis, which 

 feparate them entirely from tlie lapajous and la- 

 goins. The firft of thele charaders is to have 

 naked buttocks, and natural calloGties peculiar 

 to thefe parts : The fecond is to have abajoues^ 

 or pouches under the cheeks, in which they 

 can keep their viduals. The third is to have a 

 narrow partition between the noftriis, and the a- 

 pertures of the noftriis themfelves placed in the 

 under part of the nofe, like thofe of man. The 

 fapajous and fagoins have none of thefe charac- 

 ters. The partition between their noftriis is al- 

 ways very thick ; the apertures of their noftriis 

 are fituated in the fides of the nofe, and not in 

 the under part of it. They have hair on their 

 buttocks and no callofities. They have no 

 pouches under the cheeks. Hence they^ di.fTer 

 from the monkeys not only in fpecies, but in 

 genus, fince they poffefs none of the general 

 charasflers which are common to the whole tribe 

 of monkeys. This difference of genus neceffa- 

 rily implies greater differences in fpecies, and 

 Ihows that thefe animals are very remote fiom 

 each other. 



It is with much impropriety, therefore, that 

 the names ape and monkey have been applied to 

 the fapajous and fagoins. We muft, preferv 

 their names, and, inftcad of aflbciating theni 

 with the apes, we fhculd begin by comparing 



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