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say much. If the account of Grand Pré, and other travellers, can be relied 
on, its intelligence seems to surpass that of the orang outang. Docility, 
submissiveness, and an apparent melancholy, have marked the characters 
of the few young specimens brought to Europe, rather than any mental 
acuteness, surpassing that found in most of the species of the quadrumanous 
race in general.” This animal has been frequently taken, on the coast 
of Africa, and carried to Europe. 

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Tue average height of the species is from three to four and a half feet. 
The body is covered with coarse red hairs. The forehead equals in height 

1 Pithecus Satyrus. The genus Pithecus embraces Simiz, with four incisor teeth above 
and four below; canines two above, and two below; molars ten above, and ten below. 
Canine tecth a little longer than the others; molars more square than in man, with tuber- 
cles more prominent; head rounded; no superciliary ridge, at least in young individuals ; 
facial angle fifty to sixty-five degrees; arms excessively long; thumbs pretty short; no 
tail, or cheek pouches; callosities on the buttocks in some species; ears rounded, similar 
to th: se of man. 
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