NATURAL HISTORY 
QUADRUPEDS. 
MONKEYS. 
The family of monkeys, which forms a very 
interesting part of the animal creation, em- 
braces a greater number of varieties, and makes 
nearer approaches to the human species in 
bgure and action, than any other tribe what- 
ever. They are divided into three classes ; 
apes, or such as have no tails ; baboons, which 
uve short tails ; and monkeys, which in ge- 
^eral have long tails. They are natives of 
the Warmest parts of the globe. In the woods 
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