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A NEW HISTOKY OF 



When want and misery ran over, 



The worn-out soil of far Hanover, 



Guelph took his stick, and put his hat on, 



Came straight to England's shore to fatten, 



And brought with him his half-starved ratten, &c. 



I have introduced the foregoing little episodes, 

 if I may call them so, and adduced the different 

 localities of different species of animals, in order 

 to prepare the reader for the well-defined, and 

 the indubitable range, in which I am about to 

 locate the entire monkey family, great and small 

 on both continents. I say, locate, because I feel 

 quite sure, that this numerous family, has one 

 particular range allotted to it, and no other; — just 

 as the land has been given to ourselves — and the 

 sea to fishes. 



Moreover, this family, has never yet strayed 

 out of the range which it now enjoys; — and 

 that no occurrence will ever force it to abandon this 

 range, until time shall be no more. 



If the reader should expect to find in the sequel 

 of this treatise, a minute description of each class 

 of monkeys, together with their divisions and their 

 sub-divisions : and also a lengthy catalogue of 

 modern names, the very sound of which would 

 startle a bat in its winter cave, I hasten to unde- 

 ceive him. 



