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pay 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 
ae iteness, surpassing that found in most of the species of the quadrumanous 
r? te in general.” This animal has been frequeutly taken, on the coast 
¢@ Africa, and carried to Europe. 
THE ORANG. OUTANG,} 
The body is covered with coarse red ‘hairs. The forehead equals in height 
1 Pithecus Satyrus. The genus Pithecus embraces Simic, with four incisor teeth above 
and four below; canines two above, and two below; molars ten above, and ten below. 
Canine teeth 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; na 
tail, or cheek pouches; callosities on the buttocks in some species; ears rounded, similar 
to thse of man. 
