The Anatomy of a T Y G M I E, 



(a) Arid. Soff/e Animals are of an intermediate Nature^ between a Matt 

 and ^iadrupedsj as Apes, the Cebi, and Cynocephali. 



'E7m/u,!pori^^<H' tlud ipvsiv. Theodora Gaza thus renders this PaflTage : 

 Sunt qn<e natura anciprte, partrm hominem^ partjm ^iadntpedem imitentur^ 

 ficHtjimm^ &c. Not that an Ape is part a Man, and part a Quadruped ^ 

 inter Hdnnnern & non Hominem non datitr medium ^ The Terms being 

 contradiftory, one muft be falfe. The Philofopher's meaning mud: there- 

 fore be, that in the formation of the Parts of the Body, the Ape^ the 

 Cebuf, and Cynoce^halm^ are intermediate Species between a Man and 

 other ^/adrupeds, having feveral Parts of the Body formed like Brutes 5 

 others more refembling thofe of Men. (2) Scaliger, a little after, hath 

 this Remark ; " Ad eum namqiie modum furamus Opifex Rerum feriem 

 " concatenavit a Planta ad Hominem ^ ut quad fine ullo cohsreant in- 

 " tervallo, fie t^oeo^vTzt cum Plantis Bruta conjungunt 5 fie cum homine 

 " fimia Quadrupedes. Itaque in hominis quoque fpecie inveniamus 

 " Divinos, Humanos, feros. This Climax or Gradation can't but be 

 taken notice of, by any that are curious in obferving the Wonders of 

 the Creation ^ and the more he obferves it, the more venerable Ideas 

 'twill give him of the great Creator-^ and it would be the Perfedtion of 

 Natural H/Jiorj, could it be attained, to enumerate arid remark all the 

 different Species, and their Gradual Perfe^ions from one to another. 

 Thus in the Ape and Monkey-kind, Arijhtles Cebm I look upon to be a 

 degree above his Cynocephaluf 5 and his Pithecus or Ape above his Cebi0, 

 and our Pygmie a higher degree above any of them, we yet know, and 

 more refembling a Man : But at the fame -time I take him to be wholly 

 a Brute, tho' in the formation of the Body , and in the Senjttive or 

 Brutal Soul, it may be, more refembling a Man, than any othtx Animal ::, 

 fo that in this Chain of the Creation, as an intermediate Link between 

 an Ape and a Man, I would place our Pygmie^ 



Ui'^nKoq, &c. The Philofopher here does not enumerate all the fe- 

 veral Species that are contained under the Ape and Monkfy-k\nd 5 they 

 are a very numerous and a large ClaJJis of Animals. Scaliger upon the 

 Place mentions feveral he had obferved of both kinds ^ and all our 

 Zoographers, and moft Journals of Travels give a Defcription of a great 

 many forts of them. But for want of well diftinguilhing them-, and 

 ranging them into a Methodical Series, their Hijiory as yet is very con- 

 fufed and perplext. Mr. Ray (5) places thefe Animals under this ge- 

 neral Title, Animalia Pede unguicidato midtifido, 7i>ictThcJ)vv)^ct 8c av^puiyri- 

 fMp^x. 'Tis calf d Pithecm, ttuo^ to nd^iSfajj vp vif/Mv, quia facili ab ho- 

 mine perfuadeatur ^ and oftentimes this word is taken as a Gettm which 

 includes the whole 5 when ftriftly taken, it fignifies an Ape without a 

 Tail, and in Latin is call'd Simia ; that which hath a Tail is call'd Cerco- 

 pithecm, m EngliJJj a Monkey. Thus (4) Martial. 



(2) Scaliger ibid, in Com, pag. 201. (5) Raij S^nopfis Animal, pg. 148. ( 4.) Martial. Epigram, 

 lib. 14. Epigf, 202. 



