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LEMUR. 
as much boldness as any of the lemures poetical op 
Linnaean. 
u IV. As to his country, the first of the species 
that I saw in India was in the districts of Tipra, 
properly Tripura, whither it had been brought, like 
mine, from the Garrow mountains ; and Dr. Ander- 
son informs me, that it is fotind in the woods on the 
coast of Coromandel : another had been sent to a 
member of our society from one of the Eastern isles; 
and though the loris may be also a native of Silan, 
yet I cannot agree with M. de BufFon, that it is the 
minute, sociable, and domestic animal mentioned by 
Thevenot, which it resembles neither in size nor in 
disposition. 
“ My little friend was, on the whole, very en- 
gaging; and when he was found lifeless, in the same 
posture in which he would naturally have slept, I 
consoled myself with believing that he had died 
without pain, and lived with as much pleasure as he 
could have enjoyed in a state of captivity.” 
