OURAN OUTAXG. 
head, and want of prominence in the chin. 
The ears were also too large ; the eyes too 
nearly approached each other ; and the inter- 
val bet'veen the nose and mouth was too 
great. The thighs v/ere too short, a.nd the 
arms too long ; the palms of the hands were 
too narrow, being as long as the feet ; the 
thumbs were too short : and the toes were- 
as long as the fingers : the feetj in fact, too 
much resembled hands, and were occasionally 
used for the same purposes ; and the animal 
had too great a bend on his haunches* 
On an anatomical examination, thouo:h the 
animal had thirteen ribs, being one more than 
in man, there still appeared such an astonish- 
ing simxilitude, that it seemed wonderful he 
should want the higher faculties. The tongue, 
and all the organs of the voice, were the 
same, and yet the animal was dumb ; the 
brain, too, seemed precisely like that of man, 
and yet he was destitute of reason : an evi- 
dent proof, as BufFon finely observes, that no 
disposition of matter will give mind; and, 
that the body, how nicely soever consti-uded^ 
is 
