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(/j) The Vertebra of the Loins in our Fygm'ie were about two Inches 



long, and their number the iame, as in a Man^ viz. five ^ and not fix, 



• as are in Apes and Monkeys : But the Os Ilium of each fide does afcend 



fo high, as to include the two lower Vertebra , which is not fo in Man. 



(f) The Tranfverfe Frocejfes of the Lumbal Vertebrs in the Fygmis^ 

 were round and thick, as inMan-^ and not thin and flat, or broad, as in 

 the Monl{ey. 



(k) The Spines of the Lumbal Vertebra in the Vygmie , were ftrait, as 

 in a Man ^ and not bending upwards, as in the Ape and Monkey ki^^d, 



(/) I am apt to think thefe Tubercula are in our Fygmie ^ but our Sub- 

 jedt being young,and feveral of the Parts not yet hardened into Bones^ 

 bat Cartilaginous i, I was not fully fatisfied herein, and do leave it as a 

 ^are. 



(nt) Riolan in this account is miftaken, nor is he here confident with 

 himfelf, as to what he writes of this part in other places. Job. Philip. 

 Lngrajjias (84) who has wrote a moft learned and incomparable Comment 

 upon Galen's Book de Ojjibus^ tells us 5 Amplum ^acrumve Os in Homine 

 fex vel ad minus quinque ex Ojjibtis conjiat. Galenus tamen, Simiarum Ca- 

 mimve Sceletos dijfecans, interdum qnatuor ex OJJibus componi inquit. Sab^ 

 Ojfe inquani Sacra largius fnmpto, Coccygem quoqtte comprehendens : (^quem 

 Coccygem pro nno Ojfe , tit in prsfenti textu facit ^ tanquam quartnm adjun- 

 gens ajfumpjtt^ a Sacro interim difiinguens-^ fepius anient tribus duntaxat 

 proprie fumptum Os Sacrum ^ Coceyge diflinEium exprejjit, uti nunc etiam 

 facit : unde tribm ex partibm conjiru&um ejje ait, tanquam ex propriis Ver- 

 tebra. So Falloppius and others do make the Os Sacrum in a Man to con- 

 fift of fix Bones, fometiraes five. In our Fygmie the Os Sacrum was com- 

 pofed of five Bones : But in the Sceleton of a Monkey I obferved but 

 three Bones or Vertebra which did make up the Os Sacrum. 



But as our PygMie in the number of the Vertebr£ which compdfes the 

 Os Sacrum, did imitate the Humane l^nd ^ fo in other refpefts 'twas 

 touch liker to the Sceleton of Apes and Monkeys : For the Os Sacrum here, 

 was nothing fo dilated and fpread, as 'tis in Man 3 but contracted and 

 narrow as 'tis in Apes 5 and very remarkably different from the Humane 

 Sceleton-^ as 'twas likewife in the «S)pi«w and Froceffes which more refem- 

 bled the^pe-A/W. 



(n) TheOj Coccygk in our Fygmie confifted of four Bones, as 'tis in an. 

 Humane Sceleton, 2X\A thefe not perforated. In the Ape,^nd efpecially in the 



(84) Comment, in Oalen. de Ojjibm, Cap. x. Text. 3, pag. m. 184, 



mkey,:^ 



