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four sections, viz., apes, baboons, and monkeys with 

 ordinary tails, and monkeys with prehensile ones. 



I had rather recommend this simple plan to his 

 notice, than terrify him with a list of hard names 

 from modern books, and bewilder him with 

 divisions and subdivisions of this interesting family, 

 until his head can no longer tolerate the scientific 

 burden. 



Let him also remember, that, all monkeys, 

 saving a few isolated apes on the rock of Gibraltar, 

 are inhabitants of the torrid zone. Some few, 

 perhaps, may stray for a degree or so beyond 

 the tropics ; but then, their movements to and fro, 

 will be regulated by the sun's apparently revolving 

 movements within the tropics. 



Again, let him reflect, that no monkey, either 

 great or small in either hemisphere, has limbs 

 formed like limbs of quadrupeds ; but, that, they 

 have hands properly so called, with long fingers, and 

 with thumbs (these last have been denied to one 

 or two species) most singularly shaped to assist 

 the animal in traversing the trees : — that, no 

 monkey has yet been discovered, or probably 

 ever will be discovered, with limbs essentially 

 differing in form, from those already known to 

 us. Moreover, that none of the monkey family 

 make nests ; nor do they prepare any kind of dens 



