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milar, and who have an appendix vermiformis 

 or bhnd-gut. In fine, the orang-outang has a 

 greater refcmblancc to man than even to the 

 baboons or monkeys, not only in all the parts 

 we have mentioned, but in the largenefs of the 

 face, the figure of the cranium, of the jaws, of 

 the teeth, and of the other bones of the head 

 and face ; in the thicknefs of the fingers and 

 thumb, the figure of the nails and the number 

 of vertebrae ; and, laftly, in the conformity of 

 the articulations, the magnitude and figure of 

 the rotula, fternum, &c. Hence, as there is a 

 greater fimilarity between this animal and man 

 than between thcfe creatures which referable 

 him moft, as the Barbary ape, the baboon, 

 and monkey, who have all been defigned by 

 the general name of apes, the Indians are to 

 be excufed for aflbciating him with the hu- 

 man fpecies, under the denomination of orang- 

 outang, or ivild man. As fome of the fads 

 we have related may appear fulpicious to thofe 

 who never faw this animal, we ihall fupporc 

 them by the authority of two celebrated ana- 

 tomifts. Tyfon * and Couper diffeded him 

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* The orang-outang has a greater refemblanceto man than 

 to the apes or monkeys ; becaufe, i. The hairs on his flioul- 

 ders are direcfted downward, and thofe of the arms upward. 



2. His fixce is broader and flatter than that of the apes. 



3. The figure of his ear has a greater refemblance to that of 

 man, except the cartilaginous part, which is thin, as in the 

 *pes. 4. His fingers are proportionally thicker than thofe of 



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