^B Orang-'Outang five Homo Sjlvejlris : Or, 



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WE come now to the Ofleotogy^ to give a Defcription of 

 the Sceleton of our Fygmk , by comparing which, with 

 that of a Man^ an Ape and a Monkey^ we may obferve 

 (as we have already of the other Parts) that here too, 

 Gur Pygmk more refembles a Man than Apes and Monkeys do ; but where 

 it differs, there 'tis like the Ape-J^nd. Gdeft (as I have already quoted 

 him, vjd. p. 15.) tells us that an Ape of all Creatures k the moU Uk^ to a 

 Man in the Vifcera, Mifcles^ Arteries^ Veins and Nerves^ becaufe 'tis fo 

 in the StruSlure of the Bones. But it may be queftioned , Whether even 

 the Structure of the Bones themfelves, does not depend upon that of the 

 Mnfdes : fince in their firft Formation, they are j^//^ and vafcular i then 

 Cartilaginojis ^ and in time at laft are hardened into Bones, In Ricketty 

 Children too, we find, that even the Bones are rendered crooked, by the 

 Contraftion of the Mnfdes^ how much more, when they are tender and 

 foft, might they be bended any way by them. But by underftanding 

 exaftly the Structure of the Bones^ we fhall the better apprehend the 

 Rife and Infertions of the Mufcles. And for the better attaining this , 

 Galen in the fame Chaper (81) recommends to his Students^ when they 

 cannot have an opportunity of Confulting an Humane Sceleton , then to 



(81) Gdm. de Amt, adminijlr. lib. i. cap. 3. p. m. ap, 19- 



make 



