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the animals necessary to his subsistence. Many in- 

 deed are injurious to him, but most of them, in some 

 shape or other, prove their services and importance. 

 —The number of Mammiferous Animals that have 

 been examined and arranged is about nine hundred, 

 but this must bear a very insignificant proportion 

 to the midtitudes that crowd the surface of the 

 globe. 



THE APE TRIBE *. 



The animals belonging to this tribe bear a very 

 considerable resemblance, both in external and in- 

 ternal structure, to the human race : and in their 

 habits and instincts we remark a much nearer ap- 

 proach to us, than in those of any other division of 

 animated nature. They are endowed with n;!emor 

 ries exceedingly retentive; they are also suspicious, 

 arile, fond of imitation, and full of oesticulations 

 and grimace ; when injured or offended they atiopt 

 tJircatening gestures, and chatter with Jieir teeth ; 

 but Vy^hen any thing pleases them ulny stem to laugh. 



* This tribe commences the first of the T.inna-an orders of Uiia- 

 (Irupeds, the Pkim axes. These have four parahel tiont, or ciu.ting- 

 teeth in each jaw ; except in some species of Bats, which have either 

 two only or none. They have one canmc-tooth on each sideio both 

 jaws. The females have two pectoial nianima; or breasts. Tl,e two 

 *bre-feet resemble hands, having fingers, fort{>e vnost'part^ furnished 

 ^vith flattened oval nails. Their food is cliie!^, vegetable. 'I'i^e prin- 

 cipal animalsof this order are Man, the Ape, and Lemur tribes, and 

 the Bats. 



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