MIDDLE-SIZED BLACK MONKEY. 
breast, belly, &c. were almost bare of hair ; 
of a dusky flesh-colour, with two nipples on 
the breast. The four paws were all of them 
formed something like a human hand ; they 
were covered with black soft skin, having 
little or no hair on them : the nails were flat. 
The Cat is added, only to decorate the figure. 
This Monkey was presented to me by my 
obliging friend Mr. George Cope, of Stratford 
in Essex. I am informed, he is a native of 
Guinea, on the coast of Africa. He was a 
very adlive, lively, diverting, good-natured 
animal ; but I was obliged to part with him, 
for want of convenient room : for which rea- 
son, I presented him to a Right Honourable 
Lord in Essex, who has a convenient Mena- 
gerie, at a distance from his mansion-house, to 
receive such animals. I do not know, that 
this species has been described." 
Mr. Edwards adds, that he had then — being, 
the year 1761 — lately seen, at a house in 
Oxford Road, near Soho Square, where wild 
beasts, &c. were exhibited, a Black Monkey 
something like the above-described : this -ani-/ 
rnal, he observes, they called a Spider Monkey 
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