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* afleep, when they are eafily taken by the hun- 

 ' ters.' Thefe characters correfpond with the 

 pigmy, and by no hrieans with the Barbary ape. 

 The latter we have feen alive, and never heard 

 it cry chhichin. Befides, it is much more than 

 a foot and a half high, and has not fo great a 

 refemblance to man as the author alledges. We 

 have the fame reafons for applying to the pigmy 

 the figure and remark of Profper Alpinus. He 

 tells us, that the fmall apes without tails, which 

 he faw in Egypt, tame fooner and more eafily 

 than any other ; that they have likewife more 

 fagacity and induftry, and are gayer and more 

 frolicfome. Now, the Barbary ape is thick, and 

 of a confiderable ftature ; it is a dirty, ferocious, 

 melancholy animal, and is never fully tamed. 

 Hence the charadlers given by Profper Alpinus 

 to his ape without a tale, apply not to the Bar- 

 bary ape, and can belong to no other animal 

 than the pigmy. 



Difiin^inje Characters of this Species, 



The pigmy has no tail, and his canine teeth 

 are not proportionally larger than thofe of man. 

 He has a flat face ; his nails are likewife flat, 

 and rounded like thofe of the human fpecies. 

 He walks on two feet, and is about a foot and 

 a half in length. His difpofition is mild, and 

 he is eafily tamed. The ancients alledge, that 

 the female is fubjeCl to the menftrual difcharge, 

 and analogy permits us not to doubt the fadl. 



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