THE PONGO AND JOCKO. loi 



cies. I fliall only remark, for the better under- 

 ftandlng of this note, that the Engiifti are not 

 confined, like the French, to a fingle name to 

 denote apes. Like the Greeks, they have two 

 denominations, the one for the apes without tails, 

 which they call apes *, and the other for the 

 apes with tails, which they call monkeys. The 

 apes of Tyfon could be no other than thofe 

 which we ^twommzXt pithecus or pigmy, and the 

 cynocephalus or Barbary ape. I fhould like- 

 wife remark, that this author gives fome relem- 

 blances and differences which are not fufficiently 

 accurate. 



I, Tyfon makes it peculiar to man and the o- 

 rang-outang, to have the hair on the flioulders 

 direfted downward, and that of the arms up- 

 ward. The hair of moft animals, it is true, is 

 direfted backward or downward ; but there are 

 fome exceptions. The floth and the lead ant- 

 eater have the hair of their anterior parts direded 

 backward, and that of the crupper and reins di- 



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the elevator mufcles of the clavicles like thofe of the apes, 

 and different from thofe of man. 24. The following are the 

 mufcles by which the orang-outang rcfem'oles the apes, and 

 tilffers from man : Longus colli, peStoratii, latifimus ilorji, 

 glutaeui maxitiuu et medius,pfoas viagnus et pari-us, iliacus intcynus, 

 ct gajlroajewius interims. 25. He differs from man in tlie fi- 

 gure of the ddtoides, pronator radii teres, et e-xtenjor poUicis hrevis. 

 Anatomy of the orang-outang by Tyfon. 



* Simiae dividuntur in cauda carentes, quae fimiae finipli- 

 citer dicuntur ; et caudatas, quae cercopitheci appelhmtur^ 

 quae prions generis funt Anglice ylpes dicuntur j quae po- 

 fterioris Monkeys ; llaii fympf. quad. f. 149. 



