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manners, that vve shall extract the account from that 
valuable work in the words of the author. 
“ The singular animal, which most of you saw, 
and of which I now lay before you a perfectly ac- 
curate figure, has been very correctly described by 
Linnaeus ; except that sickled would have been a 
juster epithet than awled for the bent claws on its 
hinder indices, and that the size of a squirrel seems 
an improper, because a variable, measure : its con- 
figuration and colours are particularized with great 
accuracy by M. Daubenton ; but the short account 
of the loris by M. de Buflfon appears unsatisfactory, 
and his engraved representation of it has little re- 
semblance to nature * ; so little, that when I was 
endeavouring to find in his work a description of 
the quadrumane, which had just been sent me from 
Dacca, I passed over the chapter on the loris, and 
ascertained it merely by seeing, in a note, the Lin- 
naean character of the slow-paced lemur. The il- 
lustrious French naturalist, whom, even when we 
criticise a few parts of his noble work, we cannot 
but name with admiration, observes of the loris, 
that e from the proportion of its body and limbs, 
one would not suppose it slow in walking or leap- 
ing,’ and intimates an opinion that Seba gave this 
animal the epithet of slow-moving, from some fan- 
cied likeness to the sloth of America : but though 
its body be remarkably long in proportion to the 
* Became he has not figured this animal, but the loris, which 
is a distinct species, although it has till lately bee»i considered as 
the same. 
