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12 Orang'^Outang five Homo Sjlveftris : Or, 



of the fore and hinder Legs is both the fame way. Homini Genua. & 

 Cnbita contraria. (faith (25) P/z'^/) itemUrfs <^ fmraritm genert., oh id 

 minims ^emicibm. I fhall examine this Place of Pliny in the Ofleo' 

 logy. 



(/) Arlft. Bejides they have Hands, Fingers^ and Nails li^ a Mans , 

 but all thefe fomervhat ruder. 



The Hand, of our Pygmie was different from a Mans, in that the 

 Palm was much longer 5 fo the Thumb too, was lefs than the other Fin- 

 gers 5 whereas in a Man, the Thumb is ufually thicker than the reft of the 

 Fingers : In both thefe refpe^ts, it more refembled the Jpe-kind. But 

 the Fingers of our Pygmie being fo much bigger than thofe of Apes and 

 Monkeys 3 and its Nails being broader, and flatter, on both thefe Ac- 

 counts it was liker a Man. ungues Clauful^ Nervorum fumm£ exijiiman- 

 tnr (faith (^26) Pliny) omnibus hi,quibus & digiti : fed Simi£ imbricati, 

 Hominibus lati. 



In the Palms of the Hands of our Pygmie were remarkable thofe Lines 

 which are ufually taken notice of in Palmefiry ; and at the ends of the 

 Fingers were thofe Spiral Lines, which are ufually in a Man's. 



(4) Arift. The Feet are particular j for they are like great Hands, and 

 the Toes like Fingers 5 the middlemojl being the longeji : And the Sole of 

 the Foot like the Palm of the Hand, but more extended, or longer. 



Pliny ( as I have remark'd ) renders this PafTage thus : Pedibus paulum 

 differunt, funt enim, tit manus, prslongi , fed vefkigium Palm<e fimile fa- 

 ciunt. Now the Palms of the Hands, and the Soles of the Feet of our 

 Pygmie^ were equally long, and longer, proportionably, than in Man 3 

 and herein it refembled more the ^pe-kind : As it did likewife in the 

 length of the Toes, which were as long as the Fingers, as alfo in having 

 the rniddlemoft Toe longer than the reft. For in the Hand of a Man , 

 the middle Finger is the longeft, but in the Foot, the middle Toe is not. 

 The Philofopher does very well liken it to a Hand, fince befides the length 

 of the Toes, like Fingers, it had the great Toe, like the Thumb fet off at 

 a diftance from the range of the other Toes, as we (hall fiiew here- 

 after. 



(/) Arift. The file of the Foot in the hinder part was more callous, ill, 

 and odly imitating a Heel : For they ufe their Feet in both Capacities, both 

 as a Hand and Foot, and bend them like Hands. 



In the Ape-^m^ there is a true Os Catck, befides this CaUofity. 'And in 

 our Pygmie this Heel-bone was liker that in a Man, than theirs is. The 

 Philofopher in the former Paragraph ftiewed what refemblance this Part 

 had to a Humane Hand, in this, by reafon of the Os Calcis, how 'tis like 



<25) Plini) NciU.Hift. 1. II. cap. 45. p.m. 594. (26) Plini) Nat.HiSi. lib. ir. cap. 45. p. 594. 



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