146 Profeffbr camper on the Organs of 
done, as the fheets were not worked off at the prefs. I 
wrote likewife to Dr. KOOYSTRA,phy(ician to the London 
Infirmary, to inquire about the Orang in the BritifhMu- 
feum. The late Dr. maty examined, at my requeft, the 
Orang with him; and both declared, that not a fingle 
mark of a nail was to be found upon the large toes of 
that fpecimen, though Mr. edwards had reprefented 
them on his 2, 1 3th table fo very large. Thefe two in- 
ftances fhew us, how little we can depend upon figures, 
if not drawn with great exaCtnefs. 
The want of thefe nails, and of the fecond phalanx of 
the large toes, is beyond any doubt a very remarkable 
character in this animal. Nature, however, feems to be 
inconftant fometimes ; for, upon the great toe of the right 
foot of the Orang in Dr. van hoey’s collection, there was 
a little nail and two phalanges. The Angular red, long 
hair, and the (hortnefs of the neck, form another very 
peculiar property; for in the living, as well as in all the 
reft, I have obferved the (boulders to rife up to. the ears ; 
the lower and upper jaws were much projected forwards, 
as I (hall (hew in the anatomical defcription of the Orang. 
The country they all came from was Borneo, from which 
ifland they are firft fent over to Java, and fo to Holland 
by the Cape of Good Hope. 
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