091 AN OTAN. 
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per and lower jaw were not so prominent as in 
monkies ; but flat* like those of a man. The ears 
were like those of men in most respects ; and the 
teeth had more resemblance to the human than 
those of any other creature. The bending of the 
arms and legs were just the same as in a man ; 
and, in short, the animal, at first view, presented 
a figure entirely human. 
In order to discover its differences, it was neces- 
sary to make a closer survey ; and then the im- 
perfections of its form began to appear. The 
first obvious difference was in the flatness of the 
nose ; the next in the lowness of the forehead* 
and the wanting the prominence of the chin. The 
ears were proportionally too large; the eyes too 
close to each other ; and the interval between 
the nose and mouth too great. The body and 
limbs differed, in the thighs being too short and 
the arms too long ; in the thumb being too little, 
and the palm of the hand too narrow. The feet 
also were rather more like hands than feet ; and 
the animal, if we may judge from the figure, 
bent too much upon its haunches. 
When this creature was examined anatomically, 
a surprising similitude was seen to prevail in its 
internal conformation. It differed from man in 
the number of its ribs, having thirteen ; whereas, 
in man there are but twelve. The vertebrae of 
the neck also were shorter, the bones of the pelvis 
narrower, the orbits of the eyes were deeper, the 
kidneys were rounder, the urinary and gall blad- 
ders were longer and smaller, and the ureters of 
a different figure. Such were the principal dis- 
tinctions between the internal parts of this animal 
and those of man ; in almost every thing else 
they were entirely and exactly the same, and dis«* 
covered an astonishing congruity. Indeed, many 
$>*Mts were sp much alike in conformation, that 
