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A NEW H1ST0KY OF 



intellectual palate, than any other scientific food, 

 contained in that vast enclosure of art and science. 

 My last visit to the far-famed temple at Sydenham, 

 was wholly spent amongst them. 



But, let me return to my monkey family. I 

 trust, that my readers are, by this time, pretty well 

 convinced, that, the wild elephants of the forest, 

 have never had any particular reason to fear a 

 bastinado from the clubs of apes ; nor young black 

 ladies, to be under the apprehension of abduction 

 by them, up to the tops of the trees. 



A third ape which has come under my immediate 

 inspection is a young brown chimpanzee, in the 

 Eoyal Menagerie of Mrs. Wombwell. It was 

 captured on the bank of the river Congo, in 

 Africa. 



Whilst I was at Scarbro' during the autumn of 

 1855, this ape made its appearance there; and 

 before I left this celebrated watering place, I wrote 

 the following notice of it, in the Scarbro' Gazette. 



"Africa sends us, from time to time, many 

 of her choice productions, — some of which are 

 astonishing in their propensities, — others of une- 

 qualled beauty, — and others again of a structure 

 which may give ample scope to the most specu- 

 lative mind of man. 



" Amongst these, is the chimpanzee, upon which 

 I am about to make a few remarks. 



