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myself with, his head and shoulders, which I cut off : 

 and have brought them with me to Europe.* I have 

 since found that I acted quite right in doing so, having 

 had enough to answer for. The head alone, without 

 saying anything of his hands and feet, and of his tail, 

 which is an appendage, Lord Karnes asserts, belongs 

 to us. 



The features of this animal are quite of the Grecian 

 cast ; and he has a placidity of countenance which 

 shows that things went well with him when in life. 

 Some gentlemen of great skill and talent, on inspecting 

 his head, were convinced that the whole series of its 

 features has been changed. Others again have hesitated, 

 and betrayed doubts, not being able to make up their 

 minds, whether it be possible that the brute features 

 of the monkey can be changed into the noble counte- 

 nance of man. — " Scinditur vulgus." One might argue 

 at considerable length on this novel subject : and per- 

 haps, after all, produce little more than prolix pedantry. 

 " Vox et pneterea nihil." 



Let us suppose for an instant that it is a new 

 species. Well; "Una golondrina no hace verano ; " One 

 swallow does not make summer, as Sancho Panza says. 

 Still, for all that, it would be well worth while going 

 out to search for it ; and these times of Pasco-Peruvian 

 enterprise are favourable to the undertaking. Perhaps, 

 gentle reader, you would wish me to go in quest of 

 another. I would beg leave respectfully to answer, 

 that the way is dubious, long, and dreary; and though, 

 unfortunately, I cannot allege the excuse of " me pia 



* My young friend, Mr. J. H. Foljambe, eldest son of Thomas Foljamre, 

 Esq. of Wakefield, has made a drawing of the head and shoulders of this 

 animal (see Frontispiece), and it is certainly a most correct and striking 

 likeness of the original. 



