54- Orang^Outang five Homo Syhefim '. Qvj 



pil round and large : The Gyjialline Humour Sphserical or Lentiformk^znd. 

 almofl: as large as in a Man. The Optk Nerve was inferted exactly as in 

 a Man. The Tiimca Choroides rather blacker than in a Man. And where- 

 as in Brutes^ that are prono Capite , there is ufually a Mufculm Septimm^ 

 which from it's ufe is call'd Suj^enforim ; in our Pygme there was none of 

 this Miifcle. All the other Mufiles of the Eye, were exactly the fame as 

 in Man. This feventh Mufcle is alfo wanting in the Ape^ as appears by 

 the figures Cajferim (79) has given us of the Eye of an Ape. Neither 

 the Parrjians, nor Blafius, nor Drelincourt do give us any Remarks upon 

 this Part. 



We proceed now to the upper Venter^ the Head, where at prefent we 

 {hail examine the Brain , that Part, which if we had proceeded accord- 

 ing to the Method of Nature in forming the Parts, we muft have began 

 with. For I can't but think, as 'tis the firft Part we obferve formed, 

 fo that the whole of the Body, i. e. all the Containing Parts, have their 

 rife from it. But I (hall not enlarge upon this Argument here j it would 

 be too great a digreflion, to give my Reafons for fuch an Hypothejis. 

 From what is generally received, viz,. That the Brain is reputed the 

 more immediate Seat of the Soul it felf 5 one would be apt to think, that 

 iince.there is fo great a difparity between the Soul of a Man^ and a Brute, 

 ihtOrgan likewife in which 'tis placed (hould be very different too. Yet by 

 comparing the Brain of our Pjgmie with that of a Man ; and, with the 

 greateO: exaftnefs, oblerving each Part in both ; it was very furprifing to 

 xne to find fo great a refemblance of the one to the other, that nothing 

 could be more. So that when I am defcribing the Brain of our Pygmie, 

 you may juftly fufpeft I am defcribing that of a Man , or may think 

 that I might, very well omit it wholly, by referring you to the accounts 

 already given of the Anatomy of an Humane Brain, for that will indiffe- 

 rently ferve for our Pygmie, by allowing only for the magnitude of the 

 Parts in Man. Tho' at the fame time I muft obferve , that proportiona- 

 bly to the Bulk of the Body, the Brain in our Pygmie, was extreamly 

 large; for it weighed (the greateft part of the Dura Mater being taken 

 off) twelve Ounces, wanting only a Dram. The P^r//£«»j remark, that 

 in their Monl^eys the Brain was large in proportion to the Body, it weighing 

 tnv Ounces and a half: which neverthelefs was inconfiderable to ours 5 

 dace our Pygmie exceeded not the Stature and Bulk of the Common Mon- 

 }\sy or Ape -^ fo that herein, as in a great many other Circumftances, our 

 Pygmie is different from the Common Monkpy and Ape , and more refem^- 

 bles a Man. 



I can't agree with Vefalius, that the Stru6ture of the Brain of all ^ta- 

 drupeds, nay all Birds, and of fome FiJIies too, is the fame as in Man. 



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