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More than fifty species of Monkies have been discovered 5 
and traced by naturalists ; indeed the tropical countries 
swarm with them, and every forest is inhabited by a 
different kind. Being generally of a diminutive size, they 
rather amuse by their tricks, than alarm by their numbers 
or their powers. They are easily restrained by correc- 
tion ; and when reduced to a state of captivity, soon be- 
gin to exercise their sportive mimicries. In their native 
haunts, however, where men seldom intrude, when they 
find an unprotected individual, they immediately com- 
mence their petty hostilities, chatter round him, and 
throw withered branches of trees, and even their own ex- 
crements, at his head. Nevertheless, the hunting of them 
affords no little diversion to sportsmen, who destroy 
numbers of them, not for any purpose of utility, but 
from wanton cruelty : a barbarous pastime, which can 
only furnish pleasure to vacant and uncultivate minds, 
and is wholly indefensible. 
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