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of fpeech is more applicable to it, at leaft none of the 
monkey kind, as I obferved before. 
It is hardly to be conceived, how Dr. tyson fhould 
have overlooked all this, and have pronounced the or- 
gan of voice of his pigmy to be exacStly like that of 
men, as he has done p. 51.; and yet, it is not impofli- 
ble, when we confider that he has overlooked other and 
more ftriking differences in his effay. 
Nor is it probable that galen fhould have overlooked 
the large vermicular procefs of the ccecuni and other 
things, if he had differed the fame kind of African Orang 
as tyson did, unlefs he diffeiSted the Organ of voice in 
the one, neglecting the inteftines, and again the bones of 
the feet in another, as is often the cafe with anatomifts, 
as I know by my own experience. This, how- 
ever, feems probable, that galen dilleCted more than 
one fpecies of pithecos or apes without a tail, and that 
even that fpecies was different from the Angolefe pigmy 
and from the Orang of Borneo. 
§ 6. Having differed the whole organ of voice in the 
Orang, in apes, and feveral monkies, I have a right to 
conclude, that Orangs and apes are not made to modu- 
late the voice like men : for the air palling by the rima 
glottidis is immediately loft in the ventricles or ventricle 
of the neck, as in apes and monkies, and muff confe- 
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