A NEW HISTORY 



OF 



THE MONKEY FAMILY. 



<C EX FUMO DARE LUCEM." 



Having formerly placed the ant-bear and the 

 sloth in a true position with regard to their habits, 

 which had never been properly described ; I could 

 wish to say a word or two on those of monkeys, 

 ere the cold hand of death " press heavy on my 

 eyelids for having now been an inhabitant of 

 this planet some seventy-four years, every rising 

 sun informs me, that my mortal course is drawing 

 to its close ; and methinks, that beautiful verse 

 of the poet comes aptly home to me, " Omnem 

 crede diem, tibi diluxisse supremum." 



The study of zoology is not so simple now, as 

 it formerly used to be. Our learned instructors 

 in this pleasing art, have fabricated systems so 

 abstruse, so complicated, and so mystified withal, 

 that I find little pleasure, and still less profit in 

 perusing the books which contain them. 



Indeed, I candidly avow, that I am not learned 



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