NATURAL HISTORY. 
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any particularity on a being, but in conform- 
ity with the ncceffity of rendering it capa- 
ble of living wherever it is placed. Thus 
arifes the gi'eat difference in animated nature, 
from the variety of climates, and not, as fome 
have falfely and unphilofophically imagined, 
to diftinguifli every part of the creation from 
each other. 
The baboon fometimes walks ere£b. In- 
ftead of nails, the hands and feet ai-e armed 
with claws, to adapt it for climbing, and ren- 
der it formidable to thole natural enemies it 
meets with, where it is obliged to feek its 
fnbfiftence.. Forbin relates, that in Siam,, 
wlien the men are at harveft-work, whole 
troops of them will attack a village, where 
the women are obliged to defend themfeivcs 
with clubs, and other weapons, from their 
brutal infults. Whatever they undertake, 
they execute with furprizing Ikill and regu- 
larity. When they attack an orchard, they 
do it with all tlie flcill and precaution of am 
army in a fiege.. They have their lentinels,, 
and their lines are moll orderly foinied. The 
female produces but one, which Ihe carries ia 
her arms. 
Baboons are not carnivorous ; they feed 
upon fruits, corn, and roots. Their internal 
pafts have a greater refemblance to thole of 
quadrupeds than mankind,. 
The mandril, mentioned by Smith, fs a 
native of the Gold Coaft. It grows four or 
five feet high, and more frequently walks e- 
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