The Anatomy of a TYG MI E. 



Years, " The Hairs of his Body grew in that manner, that he was co- 

 " vered all over with Briftles 5 the hair of his Head and Beard reach- 

 " ing to his Wafte, that he appeared like fome Wild or Savage Crea- 

 " ture. 



(e) Arift. Their Face hath many RefembUnces to a Mans, for they have 

 Nojirrls and Ears alike 3 and Teeth like a Man's, both the Fore-teeth 'and 

 the Grinders. 



Pliny (17) feems to have refped to this Text of Jriflotle^ and what 

 follows, where he tells us, " Nam fimiarum genera perfedtam Hominis 

 " imitationem continent, facie, Naribus, Auribus, Palpebris, quas folse 

 " Quadrupedum in inferiore habentGena. Jam Mammas in Pedore, 

 " Brachia & Crura in contrarlum fimiliter flexa. In manibus, ungues, 

 " digitos, longioremque medium. Pcdibus paulum difFerunt, limt 

 " enim, ut manus, pralongi, led veftigium Palm^ fimile faciunt. Pol- 

 " lex quoque his & Articuli, ut homini 3 ac prster Genitale, & hoc in 

 " maribus tanmm. Vilcera etiam interiora omnia ad exemplar. We 

 will compare both their Accounts, with our Fygmie ; and obierve where- 

 in they agree or differ from us. 



As for the Face' of our Pygmie^ it was liker a Mans^ than Ape's and 

 Monkeys Faces are : For it's Forehead was larger, and more globous, and 

 the upper and Ipwer Jaw not fo long or prominent, and more fpread 5 

 and it's Head more than as big again as either of theirs : But why the 

 Philofopher^ after his general Affertion of the likenefs of the Face of an 

 Ape to that of a Mans, fliould firft of all inftance in the Nofe, which 

 is fo much different, may feem ftrange : Since in a Man the Nofe is pro- 

 tuberant and rifing, jutting out much beyond the whole furface, and 

 herein 'tis altogether unlike to that of Brutes, and the Ape-kind too. 

 'Tis not therefore on this account that theComparifon is made. But I 

 rather think, his meaning muft be, that an Ape's Nofe is like a Man's^ 

 in that it is not extended to the length of the Roftrnm, or upper Jarv^ 

 as in Dogs and other Brutes, but reaches only to the upper Lip. a fimis 

 Naribus, or this flatnefs of the Nofe, moft do derive the word Simia 5 

 tho' others, as Voffim, would have it, quafi mimia a (JAiJ,&.^ctjj, imitari^ 

 from mimicking. But Scaliger will not allow it. Dicitnr autem Simla 

 (faith he) non ab Imitatione, nt Grammatici imperiti, fed a fimitate. 



The Nofe of our Pygmie was flat like an Apes, not protuberant as a 

 Mans ; and on the outfide of each Noftril there was a little Hit turning 

 upwards, as in Apes. 'Tis obferved of the Indian Blacks, that their 

 Nofe is much flatter than the Europeans ; which may be thought rather 

 Natural to that Nation, than occafioned (as fome would make us be- 

 lieve) by the Mother's tying the Infant to her Back, and fo when at 

 Workbruifing and flatting it againft her Shoulders 5 becaufc 'tis fo uni- 

 verfal in them all. 



(17) I^atw. Jiijl. lib. II. cap. 44. p. m. 593. 



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