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accounts of this animal, as given by Doctors 

 Abel and Macleod, who returned with Lord 

 Amherst from China; and by Mr. Grant, Assistant 

 Surgeon, upon the Bengal Establishment, whose 

 report appeared in the XVII No. of the Edin- 

 burgh Journal of Science, published in July, 1828. 

 The Ourang Ontang seems to beexclusively an 

 inhabitant of the larger islands in the Indian 

 Ocean, within the latitudes approaching the 

 Equator, but principally that ol Borneo, and has 

 rarely been captured of a greater height from the 

 crown of the head to the heel, than three feet 

 and a half; that under the observation of Doc- 

 tors Abel and Macleod, measuring three feet; 

 and the one noticed by Mr. Grant, only twenty- 

 six inches. But as these were considered very 

 young, it is probable they grow to a much larger 

 size. In his physical aspect, the Ourang Outang, 

 it is admitted by all, bears a much stronger re- 

 semblance to the human form, than any other 

 animal, but this is only in caricature and in parts; 

 his extreme conformation, taken as a whole, 

 sufficiently evincing his alliance with the brnte 

 species. His colour is of a brownish red, the skin 

 below the hair assuming a bluish grey ; the whole 

 of the body and extremities, (excepting the face, 

 and palms of the hands and feet,) being covered 

 with thick and straight hair, between five and 

 six inches in length ; but it is thickest on the 

 back, arms, and legs, and more thinly scattered 



