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human form aiid feature, is yet involved in no frriall 

 obfcurity. After a general account of the manners 

 of thefe animals, the reader is here prefented with 

 an hiftory of four remarkable fpecies. 



1. Simia Pygm^us, the Wild Man of the Woods, 

 defcribed and figured by Edwards^ t. 213. (Simia 

 Satyr us ^ Syft. p. 34.) 



2. Simia Satyrus^ of Tulpius^ which LiNNi^ius 

 Confiders as the farne animal with the foregoing, 

 differing only in having the abdomen more promi- 

 nent, and lefs furnifhed with hair. 



3. Simia Lucifer ^ or Homo Caudatus of Bontius^ 

 iaid to exift in Java and Nicohar^ of which tra- 

 vellers have related ftrange ftories. The author 

 defcribes this animal on the authority and tefti- 

 mony of Koping^ a Swede, who afTerts that he had 

 feen both male and female ; neverthelefs it may 

 juftly be fufpefted, that there is fomewhat of fable, 

 or much exaggeration, mixed with this relation. 

 The reader may fee more relating to this animal 

 iand Koping's book, in a letter from Linn^us 

 himfelf to the author of The Origin and Pro- 

 grefs of Language," vol. i. ed. 2d, p. 260, note, 



4. Simia Troglodytes, or Orang Outang of Bon- 

 iius ; the Homo No5furnus, or T roglodytes of the 

 Syft. Nat. p. 33. Concerning thefe the author 

 takes great pains to prove that they are really 

 children of darknefs, and incapable, from the ex- 

 treme dilatation of the pupil, of feeing in the day- 

 time. [The length of the arms would incline pne 

 to rank this creature with the Gibbon of M. Buffon^ 

 or that of which an account, accompanied with a 

 figure^ was tranfmitted by Mr, Be Vifme from Can- 



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