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over the shoulders, elbows and knees. The face, 

 and the palms of the hands and feet, are quite 

 naked, excepting a few scattered hairs on the 

 cheeks and chin, which give a faint resemblance 

 of whiskers and a beard. The upper portion 

 of the cranium which is covered with the same 

 kind of hair as the body, the forehead, the 

 eyes which are dark and full, with the shape, 

 depth, and direction of their respective orbits, 

 the eyelashes and the ears, are the parts which 

 approach the nearest to man ; and these bear 

 that striking resemblance to the human form 

 not easily to be mistaken. But, as we descend 

 from the forehead and eyes, the extreme flatness 

 of the nose, and the oblique and narrow opening 

 of the nostrils, the projecting and mammillary 

 form and the wide aperture of the mouth, di- 

 minish the likeness, and at once shew the close 

 affinity of the animal with the brute species. The 

 number of his teeth has hardly yet been defined; 

 the aniftials hitherto captured, being too young 

 to judge of what that might amount to, in the 

 adult state. The Ourang Outang, described by 

 Dr. Abel, had twenty-four; namely, eight inci- 

 sors, (the two middle ones in the upper jaw 

 being twice the length of the lateral ones;) four 

 canine, and twelve double teeth. While the ani- 

 mal noticed by Mr. Grant, had only twenty, con- 

 sisting of eight molars or double teeth, eight 

 incisors and four canine not very white or well 



