LEMUR. 
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breadth of it, and the hinder legs, or more properly 
arms, much longer than those before, yet the loris, 
in fact, walks or climbs very slowly, and is, pro- 
bably, unable to leap. Neither its genus nor species, 
we find, are new ; yet, as its temper and instincts 
are undescribed, and as the Natural History of M. de 
Buffon, or the System of Nature by Linnaeus, can- 
not always be procured, I have set down a few re- 
marks on the form, the manners, the name, and 
the country of my little favourite, who engaged my 
affection while he lived, and whose memory I wish 
to perpetuate. 
“ I. This male animal had four hands, each five- 
fingered ; palms naked ; nails round, except those 
of the indices behind, which were long, curved, 
pointed ; hair very thick, especially on the haunches, 
extremely soft, mostly dark-gray, varied with brown 
and a tinge of russet ; darker on the back, paler 
about the face and under the throat, reddish to- 
wards the rump ; no tail, a dorsal stripe, broad ches- 
nut-coloured, narrower towards the neck ; a head 
almost spherical ; a countenance expressive and in- 
teresting ; eyes round, large, approximated, weak 
in the day-time, glowing and animated at night ; 
a white vertical stripe between them ; eye-lashes 
black, short ; ears dark, rounded, concave ; great 
acuteness at night, both in seeing and hearing ; a 
face hairy, flattish ; a nose pointed, not much 
elongated ; the upper lip cleft ; canine teeth com- 
paratively long, very sharp. 
te More than this I could not observe in the 
