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name of Pongo must be ranged among the baboons. Ne- 

 vertheless he wants the short tail by which Buffon charac- 

 terizes that family. 



" It must be owned that it was not very easy to find 

 better distinctions. All the organs of a superior character 

 have a general resemblance in the monkey races. The 

 fingers, the teeth, and tongue, appear to have been formed 

 according to the same type. We think, however, that the 

 various elongations of the muzzle may be of some utility, 

 if precisely determined. In truth it is by these, that the 

 proportion between tbe volume of the cranium and that of 

 the face is established, a point of no mean importance in 

 the animal economy; for the size and convexity of the cra- 

 nium indicates sensibility, in a similar proportion as the 

 elongation and largeness of the muzzle indicates brutality. 



" We observe in the various races of mankind, as well as 

 in the different species of animals, a similar series of rela- 

 tions between the projection of the cranium and the degree 

 of intelligence, or of that exquisite sensibility, that mobi- 

 lity in the organs, which in all probability forms the prin- 

 cipal basis of those distinctions which exist between man 

 and man. 



" We rarely find the tribes distinguished by a depressed 

 forehead and prominent jaws, furnishing examples of in- 

 tellectual power equal to the generality of Europeans. So 

 accustomed, indeed, are we to this connexion between the 

 proportions of the head, and the faculties of the mind, that 

 the rules of physiognomy founded upon it, have become 

 matter of common opinion . 



" Every one is aware that Camper was the first to re- 

 mark that a trifling inflexion of the line which terminates 

 these proportions was what constituted the ideal sublimity 

 realized by the Grecian chisel. 



" The importance of this proportion of the cranium to 



