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difcriminate it, that it may be eafily known again, where-ever 'tis met 

 with. Not that I think in a fingle Obfervation I can be fo exaft, but that 

 I may be liable to make Errors my felf, how careful foever I have 

 been. 



I will not urge any thing more here, why I call it a Fygmie : Tis 

 neceflary to give it a Name 5 and if what I offer in the enfuing Ejjky^ 

 does not fufBciently Account for the Denomination^ I leave it to others 

 to give it one more proper. What I (hall mod: of all aim at m the 

 following Difcourfe, will be to give as particular an Account as I can, 

 of the formation and ftrufture of all the Parts of this wonderful Ani- 

 mal 5 and to make a Comparative Survey of them, with the fame Parts in 

 a Humane Body^ as likewife in the A^e and Monkey-^iS'^^. For tho' I own 

 it to be of the Jpe kind, yet, as we (hall obferve, mtht Organization of 

 abundance of its Parts, it more approaches to the Strufture of the fame 

 in Men : But where it differs from a Man^ there it refembles plainly 

 the Common Jpe, more than any other Animal. 



And tho' I may feem too tedious in difcourfing fo long upon a fingle 

 fubjedt, yet I have this to offer, that if we had an accurate and parti- 

 cular Hiftory of any one Species of Animal^ it might in a great meafure 

 ferve for the whole kind. Wherein they differ, might eafily be taken 

 notice of, and there would be no need of repeating any thing, wherein 

 they all agreed. So formerly diflfedting lYoung Lion and a Cat at the 

 fame time, i wondred to find fo very great Refemblance of all the Parts, 

 both in the one and the other ^ that the Anatomy of the one might ferve 

 for the other, allowing for the Magnitude of the Parts, with very little 

 other alteration : And not only for this, but for feveral other Ainmals^ 

 that belong to the fame Family. I could have wifhed I had had the 

 like Opportunity, when I was diiTedting our Fygmie^ of comparing the 

 fame Parts with thofe of an Ape and a Monkey : For want of it, I have 

 referred all along to the Accounts given us of the Anatomy of thefe 

 Creatures by other Authors ^ which, tho' it renders my Difcourfe more 

 prolix, yet I thought it would not be unacceptable to the Curious. 

 But I fhall take care to draw up in a ftiorter view, wherein our Pygmie 

 more refembled a Man, than an Ape and Monkey^and wherein it diifer'd. 



Now notwith (landing ourPygmie doesfo much refemble a Man in many 

 of its Parts, more than any of the Ape-kind, or any other Animal in the 

 World that I know of : Yet by no means do I look upon it as the Pro- 

 duft of a mixt Generation , 'tis a Brute-Animal fui generk, and a par- 

 ticular Species of Ape. For when I was diffefting it, fome Sea-Captains 

 and Merchants who came to my Houfe to fee it, afiured me, that they 

 had feen a great many of them in Borneo., Sumatra, and other Parts, tho' 

 this was brought from Angola in Africa ^ but was firft taken a great deal 

 higher up in the Country, and in Company with it there was a Female 

 of the fame kind. 



I fhall have hereafter occafion to make my Remarks on feveral Parti- 

 culars, relating to it's way of Living , it's Sagacity, Adions, and the 



like. 



