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THE OURAN OUTANG. 
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Of all animals yet known the ouran oiitang 
bears the closest resemblance to man. This 
resemblance is discovered more particularly 
in his hands, feet, and ears, and in the ab- 
sence of a tail ; hut to a superficial observer 
many others of his features are so like the 
human, that some fanciful writers have been 
tempted to consider him as man in his rudest 
and most uncultivated state. A closer ex- 
amination, however, will detect marks of dis- 
tinction sufficiently strong to overthrow so 
humiliating an opinion, and to demonstrate 
that, even in anatomical structure, there is a 
wide difference between this animal and the 
most savage of the human species. The nose 
of the ouran outang is flatter, and his mouth 
