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interior parts of Africa. This monkey has been figured in the works of the 

 Count de BufFon, but unfortunately the figure, tho' extremely good in all 

 other refpeds, appears to have been taken from a fpecimen which had a 

 mutilated tail; in confequence of which it does not convey a proper idea 

 of the fpecies. 



Thefe accidental mutilations, which occafionally occur in feveral exotic 

 animals, are produdlive of confiderable errors in the defcriptions of authors, 

 and no fmall confufion has refulced from this caufe in the arrangement and 

 enumeration of the different fpecies of Simias, which with every affiftance of 

 figures and defcriptions is yet involved in confiderable obfcurity. 



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