PLATE LVII. 



and indeed it seems reserved for a future era to complete those 

 enquiries which at the best we are but commencing. At this period it 

 is beheved that there are two, or perhaps more distinct species, analo- 

 gous to the rufous Orang-Outang of the island of Borneo, the subject 

 in particular of the present dissertation, and the history of which is 

 the most developed. There is also another kind as above intimated, 

 the African Oran-Outang, and which, besides its other specifical 

 peculiarities, differs like the human race of Africa in being of a 

 deep black. These are the true Orangs : there is another animal 

 very analogous to them, called the Pongo by some authors ; the 

 Pongo of Tiedemann, not of Buff on, and which bears the specific 

 name of Wurmbsii, after its original describer, W urmbs. It isanative 

 of Batavia, and is known to equal the stature of a man ; and though 

 very analogous, it differs from either of the preceding. This animal 

 is however of such rare occurrence that we know very little of its 

 history. 



was before considered almost inestimable. Nor did an eminent Physiolo- 

 gist of the present day hesitate to enter into a minute analysis of the " Mon- 

 strous Sea Serpent" of the seas of Scotland, in one of the late volumes of 

 the Transactions of the Royal Society .f We have ourselves in editing the 

 articles of the Natural History department of the Cyclopaedia ofDr. Rees, 

 and in various passages of our own publications, exposed the absurdity of 



t "Sea Serpent" of some English naturalists. The spine or back bone of the 

 Basking Shark, Squalus Maximus, which grows to the length of thirty, forty, or 

 fifty feet, the flesh of which had been eaten away by sharks or other ravenous fishes, 

 and the back bone cast ashore. Vide Sir Everard Home's Paper. PhiL Trans. 



