Speech of the Orang Outang. 1 5 1 
This accidental union can probably make no efifential 
variety; for as thefe receptacles of air do not feem to 
ferve for any modulation of voice, they will anfwer their 
proper purpofe, whether united into one, or divided into 
two cavities. We very often fee the kidnies united at the 
lower ends acrofs the fpine in men, without its occafion- 
ing any difturbance in the fecretion or animal economy. 
§ 4. I muft now give the hiftory of the fo much cele- 
brated Orang which belonged to the Prince of Orange, 
and died in January 1777. This was a female; when alive 
the head was always deep in the fhoulders, and the animal 
feldom lifted it very high up. The man who took care of 
her obferved a great quantity of air under the fkin of the 
neck on both fides, which (being ignorant of thefe ventri- 
cles) he took for a dangerous diforder, and the fymptoms 
of approaching death. I felt the neck myfelf in December 
1776, and difcovered the bags to be much larger than 
any I had diflected. I could remove the air ealily with 
my hand from one fide to the other, and divide it, as it 
were, into two parts. .The bags appeared fometimes very 
turgid, fometimes collapfed. 
She died not long afterwards, and was foon cut to pieces 
by the order of Mr. vosmaer, to be fluffed for theMufeum 
of his Serene Highnefs the Prince of Orange ; but, as this 
cannot be done without preferving the face, a part of the < 
fkull, hands, and feet, it is very evident, that Mr. vosmaer. 
was 
