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Quato, but its ears are fmaller, the 

 eyes more prominent, and the chin is 

 covered with a long ftreight black beard. 

 They have a long tail, which is almoft 

 naked towards the end, the hair being 

 probably worn off, by frequently claim- 

 ing round the branches of trees, when 

 they remove from one to another. They 

 are the moft numerous and vociferous 

 of all the Monkey tribe, and frequently 

 affemble by hundreds, both by night 

 and day, and fet up an inceflant loud 

 and difagreeable howling, which is 

 heard at a great diftance, and is not a 

 little troublefome to the inhabitants. 

 Sometimes the howling is kept up only 

 by one for feveral minutes, until the 

 reft join in the chorus ; but thefe inter- 

 miffions are not very frequent, as they, 

 feem to abhor taciturnity at thefe affem- 

 blies, and are unwilling to deny them- 

 felves the pleafure of contributing a 

 ihare to this noily entertainment. Be- 



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