will convey a more perfect idea of their haunts and 

 mode of life than has hitherto been done, keeping 

 them at the same time in their classic arrangement, 

 and preserving them from the injury of dust and air: 

 it occupies an extensive apartment, nearly forty feet 

 high, erected for the purpose. The visitor is intro- 

 duced through a basaltic cavern (of the same kind as 

 the Giants Causeway, or FingalPs Cave, in the Isle 

 of Stafla) into an Indian hut, situated in a Tropical 

 Forest, in which are displayed most of the Quadru- 

 peds described by naturalists, with correct models 

 from nature, or the best authorities, of the trees and 

 other vegetable productions of the torrid climes, re- 

 markable for the richness or beauty of their fruit, or 

 the singularity of their foliage ; the whole assisted 

 by an appropriate panoramic eflect of distance, which 

 makes the illusion produced so strong, that the sur- 

 prised visitor hnds himself suddenly transported from 

 a crowded metropolis to the depth of an Indian forest, 

 every part of which is occupied by its various savage 

 inhabitants. 



The Linnrean arrangement of Quadrupeds com- 

 mences at the first -opening on the left-hand of the 

 entrance, where, dispersed on rocks and the branches 

 of a large Orange-tree, are about sixty species of the 

 genus Simia ; consisting of Apes, Baboons, and 

 Monkeys. It is didicult to determine the species of 

 many of them, and others are not yet described by 

 any Naturalist; those known are numbered, and will 

 be found as follows ; 



