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and the expression of the countenance have a long and close 

 connexion with the intellect and disposition. In the Orang- 

 outang, the Gibbons, the Chimpanse, where the approxi- 

 mation to the human face and form is most remarkable ; 

 there is the greatest degree of intelligence, of gravity, of 

 docility. There is little or nothing malignant nor disgust- 

 ing. The Guenons, which are all more or less distinguished 

 for petulance, for mischief, and for malice, carry in their 

 looks, their shape and motions, the external indications of 

 such propensities. Those among them, of a milder and 

 more harmless character, those which exhibit only sportive 

 playfulness, and innocent frolic, those which discover any 

 feelings of gratitude or any susceptibility of attachment, 

 are likewise distinguished (as we have already seen) by cor- 

 responding differences of conformation, and manifest in 

 the mildness and expressiveness of their glances, in the 

 gentleness and gracefulness of their external motions, the 

 favourable peculiarities of their internal character. 



Of all the quadrumanous varieties, the tribe upon which 

 it now becomes our duty to offer a few supplementary re- 

 marks, is by far the most brutal, the most ferocious, the 

 most vicious, and the most disgusting. Accordingly we 

 find that the external characters, correspond with these 

 interior qualities, and that the baboons have less resem- 

 blance to the human, and more decided conformity with the 

 animal type than those species we have hitherto reviewed. 

 This becomes more remarkable as we proceed through the 

 species, and is particularly conspicuous in those animals to 

 which the name baboon is popularly applied ; and until 

 lately, was exclusively confined by natural historians. We 

 find, however, the same character pervading pretty nearly 

 among them aH — from the Magot, which was formerly reck- 

 oned among the apes, and generally in form at least, to be a 

 connective link with the Orangs, to the ferocious Papion, 

 considered the brutal Mandril, and the formidable Pongo, 



