-72 Orang^O lit ang Jive Homo Syhejiris : Or^ 



(<?) I have already mentioned that the Scapula or 0/fwplata in our 

 Pygmie did not feem fo like a Man's, as a M^^^'s did ^ nor does it ap- 

 pear fo in my figure j not but that I think 'tis fo, when adult ; and it's 

 Carriages are hardened into a Bone : but my figure only reprefents what 

 was now formed intoaB^i^e, and without the Cartilages, which in, time 

 would have become bony. 



(b) The Os Humeri in our P^'^^^we was a little above five Inches long, 

 juft: the fame length with tht Thigh Bone , and not altogether fo thick. 

 That end which was joined to the Bones of the Cubit, was about an Inch 

 and a half broad. I obferved here, upon the flexure of the Cubit forwards, 

 that in theOj-H;/^/erzdiere was a deep/?7^,and the Bone fo thin ,here,that 

 it would admit the Rays of Light thorough-^ but 'twas not pervious 

 as Riolan faith it is in a Monkey ; nor did I obferve it fo , in the Sceleton 

 of a Monkey. 



(f) In the Pygmie the Bones of the Cubit were exactly like a Mans. 

 The Vina was five Inches long ^ the Raditfs five Inches and an half. They 

 had large Cartilages at both Extreams. 



(I) So likewife the Bones, of the C<jr/7A^ in-thePj'^^/ze refembled thofe 

 of a Man. I did not obferve here that ninth Bone defcribed by Eufla- 

 chiifs. For indeed in our Subj eft, there were but four in each C?rp;Kf, 

 that were ojjifisd : the others were only Cartilaginous. 



■(/) In the Hand^ our Pygmie refembled the Ape and Monkey-^md. 

 For rho' the Bones of the Metacarp indFingers were like to thofe of a Man:, 

 yet the Thumb wzsmuch fmaller,than the other Fingers, and (horter, and 

 liker the Jpe-kjnd. This G<?/e« frequently takes notice of. 'Tis true,the 

 orher Fingers svevQ much larger in our Pj/^^z/'e than in the Jpe-kind, and 

 more refembling thofe of a Man,[o that I was furprifed to fee them fo big : 

 but the Thumb^ which tht' Ancients and Gal/en olII dvri^f^iiocc^ind Hippocra- 

 tes lAyxv, in our Subjefl: was fo difproportionate and little, that as Galen 

 remarks (87), any one that fiiould view it, would think that it was but 

 a ridiadorfs imitation of Man-kjnd, and nothing anfvveringto it's Names. 

 And in the precedent Chapter he vigoroufly difputes againft the Epicu- 

 reans and the Followers o( Afclepiades ^ and from the admirableStrufture 

 and wile Contrivance of all the Parts, and particularly the Tendons that 

 go to the Fingers •-, he confutes their Hypothefis as vain, and hath this 

 noble Epiphonema, <S.r\ cS vr^Jc 3^mv i^^v i^ovlig o^ ToaaDra.ic, ^jfla^va^ai 

 ljJijj--\a.^ajl, o'jt' hv -t- I^-miv r^ t^vovImv^ «te t tq-ttw, oun -r r^Simv tk; i/x:p'j(!ijii(; 



(87) Galen de i.fit Far turn, lib. i.cap. 22, p. m.^KO, 



