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MAGOT, 
Or Barb ary Ape. 
Of all the Apes which have no tail, this animal can best 
.endure the temperature of our climate. We have kept 
one these many years. In the summer, it remained in 
the open air with pleasure ; and in the winter, might be 
kept in a room without fire. 
It was filthy, and of a sullen disposition. It equally 
made use of grimace to shew its anger, or express its sense 
; of hunger. Its motions were violent, its manner awkward, 
■ and its physiognomy rather ugly than ridiculous. When- 
ever it was offended, it grinned and shewed its teeth. It 
put whatever was given to it into the pouches on each 
, side of its jaws, and commonly ate every thing that was 
offered to it, except raw flesh, cheese, and whatever was 
of a fermentive nature. When it slept, it was fond of 
roosting on a wooden or iron bar. It was always kept 
chained ; for, notwithstanding its long subjection, it was 
neither civilized nor fond of its keeper. It appeared to 
have been but badly educated, for I have seen others of 
the same kind who were more sagacious, obedient, gayer, 
and so tractable, as to be taught to dance, and suffer them- 
selves quietly to be clothed and dressed. 
This Ape is about two feet and an half, or three feet 
high, in its erect posture ; but the female is not so large 
as the male. It rather chuses to walk on all fours thau 
erect. When it sleeps, it ifc almost always sitting. There 
are two very prominent callosities on its posteriors. It 
differs also from the pithecos ; first , in the form of its 
snout, which is thicker and longer, like that of a dog; 
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