The BABOON, properly fo called *. 



IN man, the phyfiognomy is deceitful, and the 

 figure of his body gives no indication of the 

 qualities of his mind. But, in the brute creation, 

 we may judge of thedifpofition by the afpedt; for 

 every internal quality appears externally. For 

 example, in looking at the apes and baboons, it 

 is eafy to perceive, that the latter ought to be 

 the mod favage and mifchievoua. Their manners 

 differ as much as their figures. The orang-ou- 

 tang has the greateft refemblance to man ; and 

 he is the moft grave, docile, and intelligent of 

 the whole race. The Barbary ape, which begins 

 to recede from the human figure, and approaches 

 to that of the brutes by his muzzle and canine 

 teeth, is brilk, difobedient, and nafty. The ba- 

 boons, who refemble man in the hands only, 

 and who have a tail, Iharp nails, a large muzzle, 

 ccc. have the air of ferocious beafts, which they 

 really are. The baboon, of which a figure is 



here 



In Latin Papio j in Englifli, Baloon ; in German; Pavyon ; 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, Choac-kavla ; in French, le Papion, 

 'ixBahouin. 



Papio; Gefrer. Icon. quad. p. 76. Briffon. Regn. aubn. p. 192. 

 ; Simla fphinx, fcmicaudata, ore vibriirato, ungulbus acumi- 

 i ftatis, natibus calvis ; Linn. fyft. Nat. p. 35. Nota. Linnaeus 



erred in making whifkers a diftinflive chafaaerof this animal ; 



iur the real baboon has no whifkers. See our figure, which, 



v,as drawn from the life- 



