THE ORANG OUTANG. 



Generic Characters. 

 Four cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Each foot formed like a hand, the nails generally flat, and, except in 



one inftance, have four fingers and a thumb. 

 Eye-brows above and below. 



Synonims. 

 Satyrus, Gefner Quad. 863. 

 Homo Sylvestris, Tyfons Anat. Pigmy, 1699. 

 Homo Troglogytes, Linn, Syjt. 33. 

 Chimpanzee, Scotin's Print. 1738. 



NO animal has been more confufed by naturalifts and travellers than the 

 fubjecl: of our prefent difcuflion. The general love of the marvellous, fo 

 common to mankind, has given rife to numberlefs incredible ftories relating 

 to its conduct, as extraordinary as they are in general unfounded, which 

 have not a little added to the confulion. Of the numerous representations 

 which have been given of this animal, none are to be depended on except 

 thofe by Dr. Tyfon and the Count de BufFon, the latter of whom candidly 

 confelTes his figure to be incorrect. To thefe we mult, add an elegant, and, 

 we believe, correct figure, lately publilhed at Paris, by M. Audebert, in his 

 Hift. Nat. des Singes, a raoft beautiful work, not yet finilhed ; and one 

 given by M. Schraeber, in his Hill, of Quad, in German. 



The fixength of this animal is faid to be prodigious ; and,' to make this 

 appear more probable, travellers, and fome naturalifis, have given it the 

 height of fix feet, when full grown ; but, perhaps, this extraordinary fiature 



