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The Feet, though resembling man in the palms 

 and in the heels, are both narrower and longerthan 

 the hunan, having distinct fingers in the place 

 of toes, with the great one very short. Those 

 in Dr. Abel's Ourang Outang, being without nails; 

 and those of Mr. Grant, with them. The Onrang 

 Outang has no cheek pouches like the common 

 ape, in which the latter collects his food pre- 

 viously to mastication and deglutition, nor cal- 

 losities upon the glutrei muscles ; but below the 

 chin, he has a double pendulous membrane, which, 

 when the animal is angry or pleased, swells out 

 and gives the appearance of a double chin ; and 

 this, communicating with the ventricles of the 

 glottis, produces a thickness and hoarseness of 

 the voice, without, in any degree, (as has been 

 imagined by some naturalists,) approaching to 

 articulation. These external peculiarities are 

 not the only physical resemblances which the 

 Ourang Outang bears to man ; for like him, he has 

 an uvula, which no other animal but man and 

 the ape tribes possess ; while he resembles him 

 very closely in the structure of the hyoid bone, 

 in that of the liver and of the caecum or blind in- 

 testine, and in the anatomy of the brain, at least 

 more nearly so than any other animal. But, 

 with respect to his walking in the erect attitude, 

 which has been adduced as a confirmatory proof 

 of his still nearer approximation to the human 

 species, however, we may credit his having been 



