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have been enabled to consult on the subject, but 

 more especially from the rerent reports of Doc- 

 tors Abel and Macleod, and Mr. Grant, (already 

 alluded to,) in which have been noticed, many 

 interesting anecdotes of this animal, all confirm- 

 atory of this opinion, but which, I regret, the 

 limits of my lecture will not permit me to detail. 

 1 only heg to remark, that however for rea- 

 sons which cannot be brought within our limit- 

 ed comprehension, the Ouraug On tan # bears 

 in certain parts of his physical conformation, a 

 striking resemblance to man, and mechanically 

 can imitate him in many of his actions ; yet I 

 trust it will appear, that he is most oh\iously 

 placed at an immeasurable distance from him, 

 in all those nobler qualifications for which man 

 is so pre-eminently to be distinguished ; in the 

 uniformly erect attitude of his body; in his bold 

 and commanding gait; in the comprehensive 

 and complicated uses which he makes of his 

 hands ; in the power he possesses of communi- 

 cating, and receiving ideas, through the medium 

 of speech ; and more especially in all those in- 

 ventive and highly ntellectual endowments, 

 which have more or less rendered subservient 

 to human will and pleasure, every other part of 

 the animal kingdom Thus the boasted hypo- 

 thesis of the several parts of the creation being 

 united by one chain of which man is only the 

 first in the link, exists but in the imagination of 



