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D I V. II. Digitated Quadrupeds, 
Sect, I. Anthropomorphous 
Four cutting teeth in each jaw, and two canine. 
Each of the feet formed life hands, generally with 
fiat nails, and, except in one inftance, have four 
fingers and a thumb. 
Eye-brows above and below* 
A moil numerous race-, almofl: confined to the 
torrid zone : fills the woods of Africa , from Senegal 
to the Cape, and from thence to aE thiopia : a Tin¬ 
gle fpecies is found beyond that line, in the pro¬ 
vince of Barbary : found in all parts of India, 
and its ifiands; in Cochin-China , in the S. of China , 
and in Japan ; and one kind is met with in Arabia ; 
they fwarm in the forefls of S. America , from the 
ifthmus of Darien , as far as Paraguay . 
Are lively, agile, full of frolick, chatter and 
grimace : from the ftrufture of their members, 
have many adtions in common with the human 
kind : molt of them are fierce and untameable , 
fome are of a milder nature, and will {hew a de- 
* Animals approaching the human form : A term to be taken in $ 
limited fenfe ; to be applied to all of this fe&ion, as far as relates 
to their feet, which ferve the ufes of hands in eating, climbing, 
or carrying any thing : to the flatnefs of the nails, in many fpecies j 
and to fome, refemblance of their actions, refulting from the ftruc- 
tureof their parts-only, not from any fuperior fagacity to that of 
inoft others of the brute creation. 
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