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as a brute now so celebrated in prose and verse, that all must 
have heard of him, and have formed some conception of his 
appearance. I shall take up as many of the most important 
points of difference between man and this remarkable crea- 
ture, as the space at my disposal will allow me to discuss, 
and the necessities of the argument demand; and I shall in- 
quire into the value and magnitude of these differences, 
when placed side by side with those which separate the Go- 
rilla from other animals of the same order. 
In the general proportions of the body and limbs there is 
a remarkable difference between the Gorilla and Man, which 
at once strikes the eye. The Gorilla’s brain-case is smaller, 
its trunk larger, its lower limbs shorter, its upper limbs longer 
in proportion than those of Man. 
I find that the the vertebral column of a full grown Go- 
villa, in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, mea- 
sures 27 inches along its anterior curvature, from the upper 
edge of the atlas, or first vertebra of the neck, to the lower 
extremity of the sacrum; that the arm, without the hand, is 
314 inches long; that the leg, without the foot, is 264 inches 
long; that the hand is 93 inches long; the foot 11} inches 
long. 
In other words, taking the length of the spinal column as 
100, the arm equals 115, the leg 96, the hand 36, and the 
foot 41. 
In the skeleton of a male Bosjesman, in the same collec- 
tion, the proportions, by the same measurement, to the spinal 
column, taken as 100, are—the arm 78, the leg 110, the hand 
26, and the foot 32. In a woman of the same race the arm 
is 83, and the leg 120, the hand and foot remaining the same. 
In a European skeleton I find the arm to be 80, the leg 117, 
the hand 26, the foot 35. 
Thus the leg is not so different as it looks at first sight, in 
its proportions to the spine in the Gorilla and in the Man— 
being very slightly shorter than the spine in the former, and 
between +1; and + longer than the spine in the latter. The 
