58 J Thiioiogical Ejfay concerning^dlC. 



no more Authorities to prove what T have here laid down, that thefe 

 Sphinges were only a fort of Ape or Monkey- I vvill therefore give you 

 his own words, which are thefe ^ Ka; (mv « 1^]y^-^v@K. '^ -m^Mov (cmu-nx; 



■Simii?' TV '2) gifivov a;j^£/ yi. o^tS tS t^-^X^ l-^tyvjo^^ w-ct^a^ 3 ■J'^^ai'to? I^&j. 

 'Ep'j^pS 77^0? ^oqt.-vi@^ Kifypj&i^iii lirxva^^jUctli^ anvav <l» vjuhXoo to ^^yttyc*;- 

 /aIj'OI' tS azo^tux.1'^ -m^^ovK^, li, «; iroT^'^juj nvcc WTrpi-7ni(2.v at'BpiiTropay&t 

 oi'Ti toT e^ ytte(T(i) yp-Jiiucx,1t a-iwct.^Trx^ojuu'H.'To ^- rrrpj/miTrov <ii'i^^-)(v\'Jt)2) fxoLK- 

 Aoy, ;^ &i? ^ttf zmar sAxei /Ltopp^jju. ""H t5 ^a)^« ^^&iK&^ aj'BpaiTr&ict, yrk^w oral' 

 8x e?$ apQg^i ^dipufA-ivn, dMz TJfi 7zr;^£jt)?, ?t, ot^ /x^to ti^i^ ofj^i? th K) d^^n- 

 Siv@^ cimvut 'vj?yo;p94)fo/x{fii? irpca^'^iitYix 0xpvli^ n ilvuT^ov '6^v o^uvoju-ivx' 

 ay^ov TE '6iri ^6iv£i to ,3>)£/ci', ;t, Trxvapyoro-lovy k^ SS^ pctMuii n^xosivOiUHPOv. 

 i. e. A Sphinx k a fort of Ape (^I fiall write ivhdt Ifavp my filf) all the reft 

 ofvphofe Body is hairy like other Apes. But 7^'/ Sternum or Breaft k fmoeth 

 without hair up to theThroat. It has Mamma; or Breaf's lil^e a Woman -^ 

 little reddi/J) Pimples lik^ Millet Seeds ^ running round that part of the Body 

 that is hare :, very prettily fuiting with the FleJI) colour in the middle. It's 

 Face is roundijh^ and refembles a Woman's. It's Voice k very much like the 

 Humane^ only it k not articulate^ hut precipitate ^ and likg one that Jpeak/ 

 unintelligibly thro' Anger and Indignation. When 'tis incenfed^ it's Voice k ' 

 deeper. Thk Animal k very wild, and crafty, and not eajily tamed. And 

 Pieri/0, as I find him quoted by (^) Philip Camerari/0, gives us much the 

 kmt defcription of one he faw at Ferona. Harum ego unam ( faith he ) 

 Verons quum ejfem vidi ; Mammk illi © Glabrk ^ Candidk , a Pe^ore 

 propendentihus. Grcumducehat earn circulator quidam Qallus, ex ignotk 

 antea Infulk recens adve^am. And a little after adds , Ipfa vero Sphinx 

 toto erat pe&ore glahello, facie & aurihus humank propriorihus , dorfo hijpida 

 fupra modum, fnfco &■ oblongo Pilo, eoque denfjjimo. 



What has been faid, I think fully makes out, that the Sphinx is not a 

 meer Figment of the Poets, but an Animal bred in Africa, of the Ape or 

 Monkey-kind. 'Tis different from our Orang-Ontang in the colour of it's 

 -Hair^ in the roundnefs and comelinefs of it's Face; in it's Breafts, being 

 pendulous and long ; and the red Pimples it hath on the naked part of 

 it's Body. Pliny ttWsns (as I have el fewhere remarked) that the Sphin- 

 ges have Pouches in their Chops as Satyrs and Monkeys have ; and the 

 /'(jefj defcribing them with a Lion's Tail , make me apt to think, that 

 they are of the Monkpy-kjnd. 



(q) Phil. Camerm'i Opera [Hbcifivxfiv: Meditat, H'lft. Cent. i. Cap. ji. p. m. 325. 



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