sitions: we shall only remark that, in propor- 
tion as Nature is vivacious, active, and exalted, 
in the Monkey kind ; she is slow, restrained, 
and fettered, in the Sloth ." 
Our Sloth is figured from Edwards, who 
annexes, the following account — *' It is about 
the bigness of a large domestic Car. The 
specimen from which I drew it was a stuffed 
skin, set up in the attitude represented bv 
the figrure. The skin about the mouth was 
so close and hardened, that I could not dis- 
cover the teeth. The cars are very small, 
roundish, and wholly covered by the long hair 
on it's head. It lias no outward appearance 
of a tail. The head, which is pretty round, 
is covered with long hair on it's top, sides, 
and liindcr part, which hangs over the neck, 
as in the human species. The face, in front, 
has somewhat the appearance of a man's; 
and is covered with short hair, which tends 
outward all round, and meeting the hair of the 
head in opposite dire6lions, forms a little rising 
rounil the face, and appears like a mask. 
The skin was bare about the mouth, and of a 
reddish colour ; it was also reddish about the 
eves. 
