103 THE ORANG-OUTANGS, OR 



reeled forward. Hence this charadter is of 

 no great moment in the comparilbn of the o- 

 rang-otUang with man. 



2. In the paiTage quoted from Tyfon, I took 

 no notice of the four firfi; differences ; hecaiil'e 

 they are either too flight, or ill founded. The 

 firft is the difi'erence of ftaturc, which is an un- 

 certain and gratuitous chaiader, efpecially as 

 the author acknowledges that his animal was 

 very young. The fecond, third, and fourth arc 

 derived from the form of the nofe, the quan- 

 tity of hair, and other minute relations. I re- 

 trenched feveral other differences ; for example, 

 the twenty-firfi:, drawn from the number of 

 teeth. It is certain that both the human fpe-;- | 

 cies and this animal have an equal number of i 

 teeth. If the latter had only twenty-eight, as j 

 our author remarks, it was owing to his youth ; 

 and, it is well known, that man, when young, 

 has not a greater number. 



3. Tlie feventh difference is alfo very equivo- 

 cal : The tefticles of children are fituated very 

 high ; and tliis animal, being young, ought not 

 10 have had them pendu!oi!s. 



4. The fortv-cighth mark of refemblancc, and 

 the tv^-cnty-HrH-, ivventy-fecond, twenty-third, 

 twenty- fourth, and twenty-fifth marks of dif- 

 ference, are derived from the figure or prefencc 

 of certain mufcles, which, as they vary in moll 

 individuals of the human fpecies, ought not to be 

 regarded as elTential characters. 



5. All 



