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md often wheeling and playing on the wing ahve it^ 

 afforded a moft brilliant appearance^ by the glitter- 

 ing of the fun on their variegated plumage -, fo that 

 fome of the fpedlators cannot refrain from a kind 

 of tranfport when they recount the complicated 

 beauties which occurred in this extraordinary 

 water-fall." 



M O N K I E S, 



Monfieur de la Condamine, of the Royal 

 Academy of Paris, in a voyage through the in- 

 land parts of South- America, down the river of 

 the Amazons, gives the following account of a 

 very extraordinary Monkey ; 



" The governor of Para prefented me with 

 a Monkey, which was the only one of its kind 

 ever feen in the country, the hairs of its body 

 being bright as filver, and of the colour of the 

 fineft fair trèfles, whilfl its tail was of a fhining 

 chefnut, inclining to black : it had ftill another 

 Angularity yet more remarkable ; its ears, fides 

 of the face, and nofe, were of fuch a lively red, 

 that one could fcarce be induced to believe it to 



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