82 Orang-Outang five Homo Syheftris : Or, 



to be a Bi^ed , and to walk ereft. And in the doing this, we may 

 obferve the largenefs of the Heel-hone in the Foot , which being fo 

 much extended , fufficiently fecures the Body from falling backwards, 

 as the length of the Toes do's it's being caft too forwards ; and the 

 Arms being fo long, may eafily give a poife either way, for the pre- 

 ferving the MquiUhrhim of the Body. And it may be, this is the 

 Reafon why the Pongos hold their hands behind their Necks , when 

 they walk ered. If we confider the Artkidnthn of the Os Femork in 

 the Acetabulum^ there is no difference to be obferved from a Man ^ 

 nor indeed in any other ICircumflance that relates to this Matter. 

 Tis true, in my Brfk figtire I reprefent him as weak and feeble and 

 bending 5 for when I firft faw him, he was dying ; befides , being 

 young, and ill, it had not that itrength in it's Limbs , as in time 

 and in health, it might have acquired, and I was willing to repre- 

 fent what, I faw my felf. But what very much fways with me , to 

 think him a Biped, and to go ereft, and that Nature did defign it fo, 

 much more than any of the Ape and Monhy-V^md befides, was my ob- 

 ferving the Peritonesum to be entire, and not perforated or protruded 

 in the Gro'm^ as it is in Apes and Tiogs^ and other ^ladrupeds : as like- 

 wife, becaufe I found the Pericardium in our Pygmie to be faftened to 

 the Diaphragm, 2iS 'tis in Man, and which is not fo m Apes and Alon- 

 keys. Both which are fo remarkable differences, and (as I have alrea- 

 dy remarked) fo particularly contrived for the advantage of an ere^ 

 Po!fure of the Body, that, I think, the Inference is eafie, and we may 

 fafely conclude, that Nature intended it a Biped, and hath not been 

 wanting in any thing, in forming the Organs, and all Parts according- 

 ly 3 and if not altogether fo exaftly as in a Man, yet much more than 

 in any other Brute befides : For I own it, as my conftant Opinion, 

 ( notwithftanding the ill furmife and fuggeftion made by a forward 

 Gentleman ) that tho' our Pygmie has many Advantages above the 

 refl: of it's Species, yet I ft ill think it but a fort of Ape and a meer 

 Brute i, and as the Proverb has it, vn^x©^ ^ '7n^K@^ , >(J^v ^^tiatct 

 £^«, tjiifx^oAx., C 9^ ) An Ape k an Ape, t ho finely clad. 



This Proverb, perhaps, might have it's rife from fome fuch occafion as 

 Lucian mentions in another place ^ and the Story being pleafant , and 

 relating to what we have been juft now difcoiirfing upon , viz. it's 

 manner of Motion, we will infert it here, and then proceed to the 

 Myology. Lucian ((^j^ therefore faith, Aiytla^ f) ^^ /SarnXdji tk; Aiy!>-^iog, 

 •m^nag •zsror^ 7roppi;^/^&tv §i^|o^, 8cc. i. e. tertur JiLgyptiuf Rex qui dam 

 Simian ut tripudiarent injiitttijje , Animaliaque (nam admodum ad res 

 humanas imitandas funt apta') celerrim^ didicijfe, ut Pe^fonata ac Purpura- 

 ta faltarent : eratque admodhm vifu res digna^ donee tipeSator quijpiam 



($6) Lucian. adverfm indoHum. Oper.p. m. 865. (97) Lucian. Pifcatorftve Ravivifcentes. p. m. 214. 



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