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tion 3|- inches, the length of the head from the top of the forehead to the 

 end of the chin 9 inches, and the length of the skin still attached to the 

 foot from its line of separation from the leg 8 inches : we thus obtain 7 feet 

 6^ inches as the approximate height of the animal. The natural bending pos- 

 ture of the ape tribe would obviously dimmish the height of the standing 

 posture in the living animal, and probably reduce it to Capt. Cornfoot's 

 measurement of 7 feet, whilst the stretching that would take place when the 

 animal was extended for dissection might as obviously increase his length 

 to eight feet. 



Description of the Remains of the Animal. 



Head.* — See Plate I. 



The face of this animal with the exception of the beard is nearly bare, 

 a few straggling short downy hairs being alone scattered over it and is of a 

 dark lead color. The eyes are small in relation to those of man, and are 

 about an inch apart: the eyelids are well fringed with lashes. The ears are 

 one inch and a half in length, and barely an inch in breadth, are closely 

 applied to the head, and resemble those of man with the exception of want- 

 ing the lower lobe. The nose is scarcely raised above the level of the face, 

 and is chiefly distinguished by two nostrils three-fourths of an inch in 

 breadth, placed obliquely side by side. The mouth projects considerably 

 in a mammillary form and its opening is very large: when closed the lips 

 appear narrow, but are in reality half an inch in thickness. The hair of the 

 head is of a reddish brown, grows from behind forwards and is five inches 

 in length. The beard is handsome and appears to have been curly in the 

 animal's lifetime and approaches to a chesnut color; it is about three inches 



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long, springing very gracefully from the upper lip near the angles of the 

 mouth in the form of mustachios, whence descending it mixes with that of 

 the chin, the whole having at present a very wavy aspect. The face of the 

 animal is much wrinkled. 



f All the Plates are on a scale of six inches to a foot, except when otherwise expressed. 



