ST. JAGO MONKEY, 
the changes on ail the technical terms with 
which this most pleasing science is obscured^ 
and rendered disgusting. For ray own part, I 
will spare the reader, and myself, the trouble 
of entering into an elaborate description of 
each ; content with observing, once more, that 
their numbers are very great, and their difFe- 
lences very trifling. There is scarce a coiantry, 
in the tropical climates, which does not swarm 
with them ; and scarce a forest, that is not in- 
habited by a race of Monkeys distindl from all 
others. Every different wood, along the coasts 
of Africa, may be considered as a separate co- 
lony of Monkeys; differing from those of the 
next distridl, in colour, in size, and in mali-. 
cious mischief. It is, indeed, remarkable, that 
the Monkeys of two cantons are never found 
to mix with each other, but rigorously to ob- 
serve a separation: each forest produces only 
it's own ; and these guard their limits from the 
intrusion of all strangers of a different race 
irom themselves. In this, they somewhat re- 
semble the human inhabitants of the savage 
nations, among whom they are found; where 
the petty kingdoms are numerous, and their 
iianners opposite. In general, Monkeys of 
t ^ . all 
