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form a kind of chain, locking tail in tail, or hand 
in hand 5 and one of diem holding die branch 
above, the reft fwing down, balancing backwards 
and forwards like a pendulum, till the undermoft 
is able to lav hold of t!-.e lower branches of fome 
neighbouring tree. When the hold is fixed be- 
low, the Monkey drops that which was above, and 
thus comes underm.oft in it's turn; but, creeping 
up along the chain, attains the next branches, like 
the reft: and thus they all take pofTeffion of that 
tree, without ever reaching the gi-ound. 
Thefe animals, when domefticated, are ex- 
tremely entertaining; and bur few are unacquainted 
with their various mimickries and capricious feats 
of aftiviry. But it is generally in company with 
other animals of a more (imple nature that their 
tricks and fuperior intlin6ts are difplayed : thefe 
they feem to delight in tormenting; and nothing 
pleafes them better than to impofe on the gravity 
of cats. Erafmus informs us that a large Mon- 
key, the property of Sir Thomas More, diverting 
itfeif one day in his garden, where fome tame rab- 
bits were kept, played feveral of it's ufual pranks 
among them, while the tim.id animals feemed much 
at a lofs how to behave towards their new acquaint- 
ance. In the miean time, a vv'eafel, which came 
there for a very different purpofe from that of en- 
tertainmicnt, was feen reconnoitring the place in 
which the rabbits were kept, and endeavouring to 
come at them by removing a board that clofed 
their apartm.ent. While the Monkey perceived 
no danger, it remained a calm fpeftator of the 
enemy's efforts; but when the weafel, by long 
perfeverance, had removed the board, the Mon- 
key then ftept forvv^ards, and with the utmoft dex- 
terity faftened it again in it's place; and the dif- 
appointed weafel was too much fatigued to renew 
it's operations. 
To the foregoing account may be added an ab- 
■ftraft from the Hiftory of Angola by Father Carli. 
In that favage country, to which he was fent for 
the purpofe of converting the barbarous natives to 
^riftianity, and m.et with nothing but diftrefs 
and difappointment; while his health was totally 
impaired by the raging heats of the climate, his 
patience exhaufted by the obftinacy of the ftupid 
inhabitants, and his provifions daily plundered 
vv'ithout redrefs; in fuch exigencies he experienced 
more faithful fervices from the Monkies of the 
country than from it's inhabitants of the human 
fpecies. Thefe animals he had taught to attend 
him; to guard him while afleep againft rats and 
thieves; to comb his head, and to fetch his water; 
and he aflferts, that they were even more tradable 
than the natives themfelves. It is ineieed obferv- 
able, that in thofe countries where the men are 
moft barbarous and ftupid, the brutes are moft 
aftive and fagacious: accordingly, the favages 
both of Africa and America fuppofe Monkies to 
be men; idle, (lothful, reafonable beings; capable 
of the ufe of fpeech, but obftinately dumb, left 
they fhould be compelled to labour. 
The human favages of Africa are, of all others, 
the moft brutal; and, of all countries, the Mon- 
kies of the fame continent are the moft expert and 
entertaining. The Monkies of America are in 
general neither fo fagacious nor fo tradable; nor 
does their form fo nearly approach that of the hu- 
man race. Indeed, the Monkies of the old con- 
tinent may be eafily diftinguiftied from thofe of the 
new by three marks. Thofe of the ancient con- 
tinent are univerfally found to have a naked cal- 
lous fubftance behind, on which tliey fit; which 
thofe of America entirely want. Thofe alfo of 
the ancient continent have the noPcrils diffeiently 
formed, more refembling thofe of men, the holes 
opening downward; whereas the American Mon- 
kies have them opening on each fide, Thofe of 
the ancient world have pouches on each fi.de of 
their jaws, in which they depont their provifions; 
while thofe of America are deftitute of tliern. And, 
laftly, none of the Monkies of the ancient conti- 
nent hang by their tails, which many of the Ame- 
rican fpecies are known to do. By thefe invari- 
able marks the Monkies of either continen.t may 
be diftinguiftied from each other, and eftimated 
accordingly. The African Monkey, v/e are well 
affured, requires a longer education, as vvell as 
more corre6tion, than the American; but it is at 
laft found capable of more various powers of imi- 
tation, and ftiews a greater degree of cunning and 
aclivitv. 
Beginning v/ith the Monkies of the old conti- 
nent, the moft remiarkable fpecies follovi\ 
Monkey, Hare-Lipped ; the Simla Cyno- 
molgus of Linnfeus. The noftriis of this Mon- 
key are divided like thofe of the hare •, the nof^ is 
thick, flat, and wrinkled; the head is large; the 
eyes are fm.all; the teeth are very white; and the 
body is thick and clumfy. The colour is fomiC- 
times brovv-n, at others yellowifta, and fomctimes 
olive; and the tail, which is rather ftiorter than 
the body, is always carried archways. 
This fpecies, which inhabits Guinea and An- 
gola, is full of frolic and ridiculous grimaces, A 
few years fince, an animal of this kind, about the 
fize of a greyhound, vv^as exhibited in London, 
Monkey, Spotted ; the Simla Diana of Lin- 
nrcus. This creature has a long white beard; the 
upper parts of tlie body are of a reddlfli colour, 
marked v/ith white fpecks; the belly and chin are 
whitifii ; and the tall, which is very long, is of 
the fame colour with the body. This fpecies is 
of a middle fize, and a native of Congo and Gui- 
nea. 
Monkey, Yellowish, This fpecies, which 
is about the fize of a fox, has a black face, great 
canine teeth, and large black naked ears. On the 
fides of the cheeks there are long hairs of a pale 
yellov/ifti colour, falling backwards tov/ards the 
head; the throat and breaft' are of a yelbwifti v^hite 
hue; the crown, the upper part of the body, the 
arms, and the thighs, are cinereous mixed with 
yellow; on the lower part of the arm.s and legs, and 
alfo on the tail, the cinereous predominates: the 
hair is very coarfe; and the tail is the length of 
the body. This creature is a native of Guinea^ 
A well-preferved fpecimen may be feen in the Le- 
verian Mufeum, 
Monkey, Green ; the Simla Sabsa of Lin- 
n£Eus. This animal, the Callitriche of Buft'on, 
and called by Edwards the St, J ago Monkey, has 
a black nofe; and a red flattlfti face, it's fides be- 
ing bounded by long yellow hair, falling back- 
wards like a muftachio, and almoft covering the 
ears, which are black, and refemble rhofe of the 
human fpecies. The head, the limbs, and the 
whole upper part of the body and tall, are covered 
with foft hairs of a yell'Dwifii green colour at their 
extremities, and cinereous at their roots. The 
under-fide of the body and tail, as alfo the inner 
fides of the limbs, are of a filvery colour; and 
the tail is very long and flender. 
This fpecies of Monkies, which are about the 
fize 
