LONG-ARMED APE. 
BUFFON informs us, that the Gibbon, as he 
calls the Long-Armed Ape, is the name iiiider 
which he received this animal from M. Du- 
pleix, by whom it was brougjit from the East 
Indies. At first, he imagined Gibbon to be 
an Indian word; but he found, in a note en 
Pliny, by Delacamp, that Strabo had denoted 
the Cephus, by the word Keipon, from which 
' Guibon, or Qibbon^ had probably been derived. - 
It appears, in fa6t, that the Cebits of the 
Greeks, and the Cephus of -Pliny, which ought 
to be pronounced Kehas, and Kephus^ may 
have originally come from Koph^ 61 Kophin^ 
the Hebrew and Chaldean names of the Ape. 
It is the Simla Lar^ of Linnseus;, the Simia 
Longomana, of Schreber ; and the Long- 
Armed ApCj of Pennant) and most otlier na- 
turalists. 
The animal which BiifFon describes, wa$ 
alive, and kept himself always eref!:, even when 
walking on four feet, because his arms were as- 
V long as both his body and legs. He exceeded not: 
