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and bran mills. The Americans got theirs from the Llama, and they consisted principally of phosphate 
of lime. Perhaps the earliest of all physics was bezoardic, and it consisted of the heart and liver 
of vipers, pounded up for the benefit of the invalid. Fortunately, bezoars disappeared from the list of 
useful drugs years ago, with the crabs’-claws, oyster-shells, powdered centipedes, and other medical 
delicacies with which our forefathers were drenched in good faith and secundum artem. 
THE SC MATIt A. MONKET. 
(JVom Temminck.) 
THE HOONUMAN MONKEY * 
This is the most sacred of the sacred Monkeys of the Hindoos, and when full-grown, measures 
four feet and a half in length, and the tail is considerably longer than the body. An ashy-grey tint 
distinguishes the upper part of the body, and it is darkest on the tail, which is of equal thickness 
throughout. The rest of the body is of a dingy yellow colour, or rusty brown, and the arms, hands, 
and feet are dusky black. The long face is blackish ; and above the eyebrows is a line of long stiff 
projecting black hairs. A greyish- white beard passes round the face, and extends upwards, and is 
* SemnopUhccvA entellus . 
