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rader is fufEcient to diftlnguifli him ; for, of all 

 the baboons or monkeys, he alone has a naked, 

 (lender, and arched tail, like that of a pig. He 

 is nearly of the fize of the magot, and has fo 

 ftrong a refemblance to the macaque, or hare- 

 lipped monkey, that he might be regarded as a 

 variety of this fpecies, if his tail were not totally 

 different. He has a naked, tawny face, chefnut 

 coloured eyes, black eye-lids, a flat nofe, and thin 

 lips, with fome ftiff hairs, but too fhort to forni 

 whifkers. He has not, like the apes and ba- 

 boons, his tefticles and penis prominent and ap- 

 parent ; the whole organs are concealed under 

 the fkin. Hence the maimon, though vivacious 

 and full of lire, has none of that impudent pe- 

 tulance peculiar to the baboons. He is gentle, 

 tradable, and even carefling. He is found in 

 Sumatra, and probably in other fouthern pro- 

 vinces of India ; of courfe he endures with dif- 

 ficulty the cold of our climate. The one we 

 faw in Paris lived a fliort time only, and that 

 which Mr Edwards defcribed, exilled only twelve 

 months in London *. 



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• The pig-tailed monkey, from the ifland of Sumatra, in 

 the Indian Sea, was brought to England in the year 1752. 

 ... It was extrcnely lively and full of a(5tion. It was about 

 the bignefs of a common houfe-cat. It wus a male . .... 

 . But, fince I purchafed this, which lived a year with me, I 

 have feen a female of the fame fpecies fliown in Bartholomew 

 iair, London. It was larger by half than mine, which I car- 

 ried to compare with it. They feenied highly pleafed with 

 each other's company, though it was the firft time of their 

 meeting J Ediuardi'i GUan'wgs, p. 8. 



