A NEW HISTORY OF 



Although the regions in the temperate zones are 

 open to this active tribe of animals, (I will no 

 longer style them quadrupeds) still it seems that 

 nothing has induced it to migrate from its own 

 native and enchanting territory ; — a magnificent 

 range certainly, of no less than forty-seven degrees 

 in extent ; and superabundantly replete with 

 everything necessary for life, for food, for safety, 

 and for gratification, no matter at what time of the 

 year it be inspected. 



The torrid zone then, is the favored spot, on 

 which to lay the foundation-stone of monkey- 

 economy. It will be an entirely new fabric. The 

 attempt may seem to border on rashness, or on 

 self-sufficiency. When finished, and offered to the 

 public, should it be found faulty in the eyes of our 

 first-rate naturalists, and be condemned by them, 

 I will bow submissive to their superior knowledge 

 and experience ; and I will commit this treatise to 

 the flames; just as the curate and the barber of 

 Cervantes served certain books of the knight - 

 errant's unlucky library. " Al fuego," to the 

 flames, exclaimed these keen inquisitors, when 

 they had opened a volume of no apparent utility, 

 perhaps even, with poison in its pages. I have 

 read some books on natural history, which, if they 

 had their due, deserve no better fate. 



The torrid zone generally gives us a rising and a 



