ZOOLOGY. 



other objects, it is much assisted in its motions ; the head is 

 variously shaped. The Sapajus, or Sapajou, is found 

 only in the Continents of North and South America, form- 

 ing a distinct race of creatures peculiar in all their habits. 



Much has been discussed respecting' the reasoning 

 qualities of the Monkey : and it has been asserted by very 

 respectable writers in Natural History, that the Orang- 

 Otang, -when taken young, is capable of various domestic 

 services to mankind, such as laying the table-cloth, clean- 

 ing shoes and boots, eating from a plate, &c. but these are 

 rather to be considered as the ciTects of imitation than of 

 reason, and there is no doubt that if their keepers were to 

 provoke them to anger, that all their fancied docility and 

 sagacity would immediately vanish, and the brutish tem- 

 per quickly regain its ascendancy. The quality which 

 is denominated Sagacity or Instinct, seems to abound much 

 more in the Elephant, the Horse, and the Dog, approach- 

 ing very nearly in these creatures to what we denominate 

 in man, Reason. 



The Sanglin Monkey, which is delineated from a live 

 specimen in Mr. Polito's Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, is 

 an animated and sociable little creature, not much exceed- 

 ing in point of size the Squirrel-Tribe; the face is round, 

 the nose short and flat, and his long whiskers give him a 

 ludricous and yet expressive physiognomy. His habits 

 are placable, and suitable to his small powers of strength, 

 his tail is long and narrow covered all over with short 

 hairs. It is a native of the Brazils, and is said to subsist 

 upon fruit, small snails and insects : like all other of its-- 

 congeners its chief residence is amongst the trees, in the 

 highest branches of the forest, where it is secured by its 

 smallness and agility from the attacks of the larger animals 

 of prey. 



