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locality. It is equally our birth-prerogative, and 

 the place of our death. Believe me, that all us 

 of the monkey family, whether in the old world or 

 in the new, are inhabitants of the trees, and of 

 the trees only ; — saving that little colony of ours 

 in Gibraltar ; and we have unfortunately no 

 tradition to inform us how in the name of wonder, 

 they ever got there. 



"Be assured, if they could, by any chance, slip 

 away from the garrison, — they would, to an ape 

 rejoin our brethren in Barbary, and come within 

 the tropic, when the sun is on his returning 

 journey from the North In fine, let me tell 

 you. my dear sir, once for all, that every monkey 

 in the known world, whether in infancy or in old 

 age ; whether in health or in sickness, whether 

 in freedom or in captivity, (as alas, I myself now 

 am,) are never at our perfect ease, unless in the 

 trees of the forest." 



In height, the orang-outaug which is the largest 

 ape hitherto discovered, does not exceed five feet. 

 Our own unrivalled comparative anatomist is, I 

 believe, of this opinion : — although I have formerly 

 read of an ape killed and measured in Sumatra 

 approaching nearly to seven feet. Most probably, 

 there has been an error here. 



