74 Orang-'Outang five Homo Sjkeflris : Or, 



ditf/t ipjius longiUtdinefn rscurvatur , excavaturque adeo^ nt nihil popenio- 

 dnm in medio emineat, curvo aduncoque ejus finu navicidam qnandam ele~ 

 gantijjimi referre videatur. In caudatajimia patella videtur ex dHobi0 Ojji^ 

 bus mutub adnatrs confiriiUa. 



(e) Tibix utrumque Os in utraqttejimia humanis O^ihm fimilUrmim eU. 



(f) SimixPes ah humano maxinih difcrepat^ eU enim ohlongus latufque 

 homini^ angtiftus brevifque fimi^y pro ratione corporis\pedifqne digitilongio- 

 res ffint^ fed metatarji Ojfa brevier a^ calcanenm vero anguUim^ d^ anteriori 

 in parte qua cum Ojfe cyboide cotnmittitur ^ latius evadens^ magijque inibi 

 longtim^ quiim retro ^ in/pedit nefifnia diif eredfa, ^ jlare^d^ ambulare queat, 

 Afiragalus Galeno tennis non ejpcitttr^ fed manens fublimk , 0]fl fcayboidi 

 conJHfigitur, quod fmi£ repfignat, in qua aflragalus humilem^oblongam atque 

 tenuem cervicem habet. Plant a in fimia ex quatuor Ojjibus componitur. Pol- 

 lex ex tribus, inqnit Euftachius. ^amvis Volcherus in caudata fimia 

 nnllam ohfcrvarit differentiam^ quh difcreparent ah homine. (g) Digitornm 

 notifinia eli difcrepantia in homine^ ut notavit Galenus, omnes una ferie 

 dij^onuntur^ brevijjimoque j^atio difcreti , multo ininores funt^ qitam qui in 

 mann habentur. Nam quant)) pesfumma manu major ell , tanto iUius digiti 

 ntanus digit kfunt minor es. 



Qi) Accedit quod poUex longitudine Indict ^equalfs ei?, quern dupla crafji- 

 iudine fiperat, talifque efi quatuor digit arum commenfuratio^ut ab indice ad 

 minimum femper defici at longittido : & featnda aciei Ojfa^ fi indice m exce- 

 p£rfs^ breviorafunt iis, quiC in tertia phalange reponuntur. Hiec omnia in 

 ntraque fimia aliter fe habent^ omnes enim pedis digiti infigni Jpatio difcreti 

 funt^ multoque longiores^ quhm in manu exijlunt : PoUex c£terk digitis bre- 

 vior tenuiorque ei?, atque diverfam ab aliis pofitionem fortitur, dehifcit etiam, 

 nt pollex in manu valde ab indice. Digiti pedis fimia, manus humanne di- 

 gitorum ferie fn imitantur, ei? enimpoUex in pede fimi£ reliquis digitis bre- 

 "viar, inter alios quatuor digitos nt in manu^ medium omnium longijjimus. 



(a) There was no Part I think in the whole Sceletm where the Pjg^ 

 mie difFered more froni a Man, than in the Strufture and Figure of the Os 

 Ilium : for in a Humane Sceleton thofe Bones are fpread broad, forming a 

 Sinus or Hollow on the Infide. In the Pygmie they were proportion- 

 ably longer and narrower, and not fo Concave on the infide, but in all 

 refpe^ls conformable to the Shape of the fame Bones in the Ape and 

 Monkey-kind. But why i??Wrf;z (houlddeny the Os Pubis to be in Mon- 

 keys, I fee no reafon 5 for naturally there is not that Dehifcence or Se- 

 paration of the Os Pubis, as Coiter has given in his Figure of the Scele- 

 ton of a Monkey, and as he defcribesit ; from whence I fuppofe Riolan 

 borrows this Defcription : for in the Sceletons of two Monkeys I obferved 

 thefe Bones were joined together, and in the Pygmie they are clofed as 

 in a Man. When the Cartilage that joins them is divided, they will part 



afunder ^ 



