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were brouglit to Decca ; and what I now fend you Is 
a copy of the original drawing *. See Tab. Ill, 
I remain, dear Sir, 
Your afFedtionate 
humble fervant, 
Stephen DeVifme« 
The monkey, of which Mr. De Vifme has fent this draw- 
ing and fhort account, feems to be very like, if not the fame with 
the ape without a tail, defcribed by Mr. De Buffbn in the XIV th 
volume of the Hiftoire Naturelle, p, 92, under the name of the 
Gibbon, which it bears in fome parts of the Eaft-Indies. This 
fpecles is found, he fays, along the coaft of Coromandel, at 
Mallacca, on the Molucca iflands, and upon the confines of 
China. It grows to be upwards of four feet, walks on its hind 
legs, and fometimes on all four. The hair, with which it is co- 
vered, is either brown or black : round about its face is a circle 
of greyifh hairs ; its eyes are large, but funk in its head ; its ears 
naked j its face fiat, and of a copper colour. It is of a placid 
difpofition ; its motions are gentle ; it was fed with bread, fruits, 
almonds. But the moft fingular charadferiftic is, the great 
length of its arms ; and though Mr. De Vifme takes no notice of 
this circumftance in his defcriptlon, his drawing feems to indi- 
cate it ; but in a lefs ftriking manner, than that of Mr. DeBuf- 
fon, who adds, that, when the animal is upright, it can touch 
the grou d with its hands. 
M. M. 
VoL. LIX, 
L, 
XII. ^ 
