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GARDEN OF PLANTS, PAUTS : THE MONKEYS ABROAD. 
few instances remarkably short and thick-set, and iu others drawn ont to a surprising degree of 
tenuity. Their limbs vary greatly in their proportions, but in most of them the anterior are longer 
than the posterior : in all, they are admirably adapted to the purposes to which they are applied 
in climbing and leaping, by the slenderness of their form, the flexibility of their joints, and the 
mnscular activity with which these qualities are so strikingly combined. But of all their organs, 
there is perhaps none which exhibits so reniatkable a discrepancy in every particular as the tail, 
which is entirely wanting in some, forms a mere tubercle in others, in a third group is short and 
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