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to be the greatest enemies; and thus the more 

 we examine into the works of nature, the more 

 fully are we convinced of their utility, even in 

 her minutest operations. 



Of the next genus in the order of Primates, 

 the Lemur tribes, our notice will be but brief; 

 as the animals belonging to it, have nothing very 

 remarkable in their habits to render a long detail 

 of their history necessary. One or two species 

 are to found in Africa and South America, but 

 they principally inhabit the Indian Islands, 

 more especially Madagascar and Ceylon. From 

 their quadrumanous structure which increases 

 their faculty of climbing, and from their haunts 

 and habits being confined to the forest where 

 they obtain their food, they have been classed 

 by some naturalists with Monkeys; but as they 

 differ from them in the arrangement of their 

 teeth, in the form of the head which is fox-like 

 and in the greater length of their legs; 

 Linnaeus has, with more propriety, placed them 

 in a separate genus. 



\Ve come now to the last genus in the order of 

 Primates, the Bat tribes, which, though possessing 

 a very curious piece of mechanism that confers 

 upon them the quality of flying, thus apparently 

 forming a link between quadrumanous animals, 

 and birds, renders them a fit subject for 

 philosophical inquiry ; yet upon a closer 

 examination we shall find, that even this attri- 



