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tions and inaccurate.” Camper’s correct observa- 
tion enabled him to detect another mistake — in some 
respects of more importance — which had been com- 
muted by manv naturalists, and which consisted 
m making the eye of the orang very closely to 
resemble that of man. On this point, our author 
observes ; “ The coloured portion of the eye is very 
large in the orang-outang, as in all monkeys, and in 
most quadrupeds, so that the white of the eye can- 
not be seen, and there is a total want of that sweet- 
ness and vivacity which so peculiarly distinguishes 
the regard of man. M. de Seve has done the Jocko 
the Cabinet die Roi at Paris the honour of as- 
similating him to man in these particulars ; and 
*lm orang delineated by M. Allamand is not free 
from the same fault.” Upon another point, he again 
observes, in a similar strain : “ It is the same with 
^^be position of the lower limbs, and the whole gait 
and bearing of the figure. And udiy, it may be 
nsked, have Tyson, Buffon, and other naturalists, re- 
piosented these animals so Idte to man? We unhe- 
sitatingly answer, to approximate them to the hu- 
man species — without in the mean while reflecting, 
*bat, by tlieir authority, they lead others into error. 
is not therefore only ignorant travellers, and un- 
mformed amateurs, who, by the wonders they re- 
count from distant lands, propagate the erroneous 
"pinion, that there are animals which perfectly re- 
semble man, if they be not truly of the human race ; 
but it is the directors of the principal museums in 
Europe who contribute quite as muc.Ii to this error, 
