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I. A Letter from Dr. George Mackenzie, to 
Sir Hans Sloane, Dar. Coll Med. Lond. 
concerning the Goad Mondi o/Brafil. 
SIR/ 
Y O U know that the Coati Mondi of Brafil is fel- 
dom or never brought alive into Europe ^ yet 
there were two of them found in Capt.Gr^^w’s Ship, 
who was fome Years ago try*d and condemn’d here for 
Piracy, one of which being given in Compliment to 
my Lady Seafortb^ dy’d in my Cuftody of a Wound it 
had received in the Thigh, which I caufed to be dif- 
feded, and have fent you the Account of it, compared 
with that which the Parifian Academifts publifli’d of 
one of them j and which differs from theirs in feveral 
Particulars, moft of which, as I believe, may proceed 
from the Difference of Sex, theirs being a Male, and 
ours a Female. 
Theirs was fix Inches and an half from the end of 
the Snout to the hinder part of the Head, ours was 
only four j theirs was fixteen Inches from the Occiput 
to the Beginning of the Tail, ours was ten ^ theirs from 
the Infertion of the Tail to the End was thirteen Inches, 
ours twelve j theirs from the Top of the Back to the 
Extremity of the fore Feet was ten Inches, ours was 
fevcn^ theirs from the Top of the Back to the Extre- 
mity of the hinder feet was twelve Inches, ours eight; 
the Snout of theirs was very long and moveable, like 
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