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ting the Time of the moft Knowing and Learned Re 
der, who will find ample Satisfaftion therein. 
And firft in the Preface our Author gives an Account 
of his Qndertalfing, viz.. To give a Comparative Sur- 
vey of this Animal, \v\i\\2i Mor/key^ an yipe^ anda^^^, 
/hewing wherein they agree, and in what Particulars 
they differ from each other, and in the Philological Ef- 
fay, he proves there were luch Creatures as the Anci- 
ents called Z'^^^/^'/, Cymeephdi^ &c. And that thefe 
w^ere all either Apes or Monkies, and not Men. As to 
this Cr^;^^-0«/4;jg which was brought from Angola m 
Africa^ but taken up higher in the Country, he begins 
with thefeveral Names by which it has been called by 
feveral Writers, and obferving the great Confufion in 
Authors Treating of the Ape, or Monkey-kind, he obli^ 
ges himfelf to give a more particular Defcription of this, 
and tho' heobferves it in n^any things more agreeable to 
a Man^ than any of the Ape kind, yet he by no means al- 
lows it to be Humane, but a Brute-animal^ /W generis. 
And before he comes to the particular Defcription of it, 
he prefents us with a Text in Arijiotle^ defcribing the 
Ape kind, which he Erjgltfhes^ and gives a Comment 
thereon, (hewing wherein the prefent Subjedl agrees, or 
differs from it, and then proceeds to give an exact Ac- 
count of the outward Shape and Size of the Creature dii* 
fefted, which was 26 Inches high, and in this he is ve- 
ry particular in the Proportions of every part, and takts 
noticeof the Figures and Defcriptions given by Tulpim^ 
Bo9itius^Gefner^ &c. Wherein they agree, or differ from 
this, all which Figures he gives us a ^Copy of, and quotes 
at large feveral Authors, Ancient and Modern that have 
mentioned, or treated of it, and To comes to the Anato ny 
of its feveral Parts. I (hall remark fome few, of them I I 
thought more obfervable, as that its Skin was whiti(h, 
and adhered pretty firmly, and had the Membrana Am- 
pofa n&yit to the Skin, as in Man, and under that the 
