NATURAL HISTORY. 39 
ANIMALS of the MONKEY KIND. 




Tue ape, or monkey clafs, is diftinguifhed from all 
others by their fimilitude to man. ‘They have hands, 
inftead of paws; their eye lids, lips, and breatts, 
reatly refemble thofe of the human race; while their 
internal firuéture bears the ike conformation. We 
recommend, therefore, to thofe who make their per- 
fons the principle object of attention, to confider their 
affinity to this part of the brute creation, to induce 
them to cultivate thofe mental qualifications, which 
San alone diftinguifh them from the inferior clafles of 
eings! 
ete well known ftory of Peter the wild Boy, we 
fee the importance of the cultivation of ourinfant fac- 
ulties. This boy was found by George I, in the 
woods of Germany, and broughtto England in the 
year 1700, whenhe was fuppofed to be about ten or 
twelve years old; at which time his agility in climb- 
ing trees, is faidto have been furprifing. He mutt 
have been loft, or left in the woods.in-his early. child- 
hood, perhaps foon after-he was able to walk ; how- 
ever it might have happened, his infant impreflions of 
fociety were loft, and his fubfequent fentiments, being 
_ diégtated by his favage fituation, having no opportuy- 
ity of learning and practifing fpeech, he continued till 
his death a mere ourang outang. Ue could break or 
cleave wood, draw water, or threfhin a barn; but his 
rude, narrow mindcould never be enlarged, princi- 
pally owing to his not, being able to acquire the power 
of fpeech. This is fufficient to thew what we fhould 
be, were we left to ourfelves, and what we owe to the 
‘experience of former ages, for infltilling into us a pro- 
ae as our faculties cHpand, to maturity. 



.. The monkey tribe are lively, active, full of,chatter, 
frolic, and grimace. Indeed their a€tions, aswell as, 
their form, feem defigned, by nature, to burlefque the 
a part of our fpecies, In general, they are 
erce, untamable, dirty, and. Sihangtra TRE gist 
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