Ii6 T H E G I B B O N, &c. 



Difan^iive Chambers of this Species. 



The gibbon has no tail. There are flight cal- 

 lofities on his buttocks. His face is flat, bro'wnj 

 and furrounded with a circle of gray hairs. His 

 canine teeth are proportionally larger than thofe 

 of man. The ears are naked, black, and round. 

 The arms are enormoufly long. He walks on 

 his two hind feet, and is about a foot and a half 

 or three feet high. The female, like women, is 

 fubjedl to a periodical evacuation. 



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