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other kinds of meat, even the venifon of 

 the Wirrebocerra not excepted. 



Animals of the Ape kind are, in this 

 part of America, in greater number and 

 variety, than in any other part of the 

 known world. This extenfive variety, 

 from the Orang-Outang to the Sacca- 

 winkee, and the difficulty of procuring 

 them, has engaged me to abandon a de- 

 fig n I once formed, of giving you an ac- 

 curate defcription of their feveral fpe- 

 cies, which, I am fully convinced, could 

 hardly be comprized within the com* 

 pafs of an ordinary odlavo volume. 



The Orang-Outang of Guiana is 

 much larger than either the African 

 or Orient ah if the accounts of the na- 

 tives may be relied on \ for I do not find 

 that any of them have been feen by the 

 White Inhabitants on this coaft, who 

 never penetrate far into the woods, 



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