12 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



Animals of the MONKEY Kind. 



WE come now to the defcription of a numerous 

 race of animals, confifting of a greater variety 

 of kinds, and making nearer approaches to the human 

 fpecies, both in form and action, than any other clafs of 

 quadrupeds. 



Monkies are found only in the warmed parts of the 

 world, and chiefly in the torrid zone. They abound in 

 the woods of Africa, from Senegal to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and from thence to Ethiopia ; in all parts of India 

 and its ifles; in the South of China; in Japan; and in 

 South-America, from the Ifthmus of Darien, as far as Pa- 

 raguay. A fpecies or two are alfo met with in Arabia 

 and the province of Barbary. 



On account of the numbers and different appearances 

 of thefe animals, they have been divided into three 

 clafTes, and defcribed under the following denominations ; 

 viz. — Apes, or fuch as have no tails; Baboons, or fuch 

 as have fhort tails ; Monkies, or fuch as have long tails. 



In the Ape kind, we fee the whole external machine 

 flrongly impreffed with the human likenefs, and capable 

 of fimilar exertions : They walk upright, their pofteriors 

 are flefhy, their legs are furnifhed with calves, and their 

 hands and feet are nearly like the human. 



In the Baboon, we perceive a more diftant refem- 

 blance of the human form : He generally goes upon all 

 four, feldom upright, but when conftrained to it in a 

 ftate of fervitude. — Some of them are as tall as a man. 

 — They have fhort tails, long faces, funk eyes, are ex- 

 tremely difgufting, lafcivious, and poflefled of the molt 

 brutal nercenefs. 



