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the face holds equally in relation to the different species of 

 monkeys, as it does to the different races of mankind. 



" The Orangs, with a round and vaulted cranium, with a 

 short and flattened visage, surprise us by their gravity, 

 their address, and their intelligence. 



" The Sapajous, with a short face, and cranium slightly 

 flattened, are lively, gay, and frolicksome. They amuse by 

 their tricks, and please us by their gentleness. 



IC The Guenons, which have a similar configuration of 

 skull with the Sapajous, have likewise many other relations 

 with them, in character and manners. 



" The Macaques, and the Magots, in which the muzzle 

 begins to elongate, exhibit considerable petulance, and are 

 far from tractable. 



" The Alouattas with elongated muzzle, but cranium of 

 tolerable convexity, are merely wild and mischievous. Their 

 howlings are frightful, and they cannot be tamed. 



" Finally, the Mandrills, or baboons, animals with ca- 

 nine muzzles, not less ugly in form, than disgusting 

 from the colour of their faces, which have the appearance 

 of having been recently burned, are all of the most incorri- 

 gible ferocity. They present, as it were, living pictures of 

 the most revolting brutality, and the most abandoned 

 vice. 



" We have followed pretty nearly the same method which 

 Camper has observed in his researches on the physiognomy 

 of the various races of mankind. We have only endea- 

 voured to describe the principal lines in a manner still 

 more precise and rigorous. 



" One named the horizontal is supposed to pass through 

 the centre of an imaginary line drawn from one auricular fo- 

 ramen to the other, and through the edge of the incisive 

 teeth . 



" The other is the facial, which proceeds from this last 



