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The Little Black Monkey. 
T HIS Monkey is here reprefented of its natural Size, and is one of the leafl 
Species I have met with: Its Bite, through its Smallnefs, was no more offjn- 
five than a Pinch from a Sparrow’s Bill; it was very lively and full of Action, as m 3ft 
of the Monkey-Kind are. 
Its Eyes were of a Hafel-Colour, the Face of a dark Flefh, the Nofe hardly riling 
at all, the upper Lip, flit like a Hare’s Lip, the Teeth very fmall, like thofe of other 
Monkeys, which nearly approach to human Teeth. The Ears were large in Pro« 
portion, of a fquarifh Figure, of a blackifh Fleshi-Colour, and very thinly befet with 
fbort Hairs. The Hair on the Head formed a Peak on the Forehead ; the Face had 
little or no Hair on it; the Head, whole Body and Tail, were covered with foft black 
Hair, rather rough and fhaggy, than of a fmooth Surface ; the Hair on the lower 
Part of the Back feemed to (land eredt, and had a Mixture in it of Golden, or Yellow- 
colour’d Hairs. The Tail is at lead: twice the Length of the Body; the Paws (both, 
fore and hind) are cover’d with fhort, fleek, yellowifh Orange-colour’d Hairs. It 
had five Toes on each Foot ; its Nails or Claws were not flat as in the greater Mon¬ 
keys, but fharp and hooked, like thofe of Squirrels, though not fo long ; the Fore 
Paws were not fo Human-like as in fome Monkeys, though it would hold any Thing 
in a fingle Hand, which a Squirrel will not do. 
The above rare, and, I believe, undeferibed Monkey, was brought from the TVefi- 
Indies , by the Honourable Commodore Fitzroy Lee, Anno 1747, and prefented by 
him to the Right Honourable the Count efis Dowager oj Litchfield , by whofe Permiflion 
I made a Draught of it from Life : It was a Female. 
Finding an Account of a very extraordinary Monkey, in a Voyage through the 
Inland Parts of South-America, down the River of the Amazons , by Monfieur 
de la Condamine , of the Royal Academy of Paris, I thought proper to reprint it here. 
See the Abridgment in Englijld, publifhed at London, Anno 1747, P. 83. “ The 
“ Governor o DPara prefented me with a Monkey, which was the only one of its 
“ Kind ever feen in the Country ; the Flairs of its Body being as bright as Silver, and 
5C of the Colour of the fined: fair Treffes, whilft its Tail was of a fhining Chefnut, 
“ inclining to Black : It had ftill another Singularity yet more remarkable; its Ears, 
“ Sides of the Face, and Nofe, were of fuch a lively Red, that one could fcarce be in- 
duced to believe it to be its Natural Colour. I kept it a Year, and it was yet living, 
“ when I was writing this, almofl in Sight of the Coaft of France , where I pleafed 
fC myfelf with the Thought of bringing it alive : But in Spite of the continual Precau- 
tions I took to preferve it from the Cold, the Severity of the Weather killed it.” 
This Gentleman was treating of little Monkeys when he mention’d this, though he 
has not told us the Size of it. 
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