q6 Orang^Outang jive Homo Syhejlrts .- Or^, 



ftanding or walking ereft. The Ajiragalus I did not obferve different 

 from a Man's, The Scaphoides or NavkuUre here was CartHagimus. 

 If one reckons three Joints in the greai Toe, then there can be but tour 

 Bones in the Planta PeJ^r, or Metatarfus ^ which with B.ti^iachius I am 

 more inclined to, becaufe really this Part performs upon any occafion 

 the ufe of an Hand too ^ and the great Toe^ (like the Thnmb in the Hand) 

 ftands off from the range of the other Fingers. Befides, I obferved a 

 difference in the Colour in the Bones of the Metatarfuf and the Toes .• 

 for the Colour of the Toes was white and opace , the Colour of the 

 Bones of the Metatarfus was like to that of the Cartilages, and more 

 tranfparent. Now all the three Bones in tht great Toe were of the fame 

 colour, white as were the other Toes. Therefore I (hall make but four 

 Bones in the Metatarfm, anfwerable to thofe of the Metacarpus in the- 

 Haad, and three Bones in ths great Toe. 



C^J And as the Hand of our Pygmie in fome Parts refembled the Hu- 

 mane -y in others the Ape-kjnd : So the fame may be faid of the Foot too. 

 For the Heel, the Tarfus and Metatarfuf were like to the Humane. But 

 all the T£>(?x were liker toihtApe ^xid. Monkey -kind : For the Toes here , 

 if we may call themT^cj, and not rather Fingers, were almoft as long 

 as the Fingers in the Hand ; much longer proportionably than in Man, 

 and not lying foclofe together: But the i5(7«ex of the Fingers in the 

 Hand^ were larger and bigger than thofe of the Toes.. 



(h) The great Toe in the Fygmie, was {hotter than thefirft of the other 

 Toes 5 tho' in a Man 'tis altogether as long 5 and herein it refembles 

 the Ape-kind. But whereas Ariftotle ( as I have remarked ) mentions, 

 diat in ApesXh& middle Toe is the longeft , as is the middle Finger in 

 the Hand ; In the Sceteton of the Fygmie I did obferve, that the^Jri? and- 

 middle Toe were both much of a length , each meafuring an Inch and 

 three quarters : The ?/jzr^ and little Toe- were about an Inch and an half 

 long ; the little Toe being rather fomewhat (hotter than the third Toe^ 

 If in the^re^F r<?e you reckon three Artiaili, as Eitjiachius does, then 

 from the Tarfi0 to it'sExtream, the great Toe meafured two Inches and 

 an half : but if with Coiter you make but two Articuli or Joints in the 

 great Toe, and the other to be a Bone of the Metatarfus 5 thefe two were 

 only an Inch and a quarter long: The four Bones of the Metatarfus 

 were much of a length, being about an Inch and a quarter long. 



T\\\s great Toe ( as has been already frequently remarked) being fet 

 off from the range of the others, more refembles a Thumb. This Dif-* 

 ference I obferve in it's make, That the Bones that compofe it, are much 

 bigger and larger, than any of the other Toes ; and in refpeift of the 

 Thumb in the Hand, vaftly bigger. In the Sceletou of a Monkey I did 

 not obferve the Bones of the great Toe , to exceed thofe of the other. 

 But as the Thumb in the Foot is much bigger,than that in the Hand-^io the 

 Finders in the Handzt^ much larger than thofe in the Foot. GAPo . 



