1807.] 
the glaffes in external appearance, which, 
when the animals take them up, feize 
and fecure them by the paws. 
The inhabitants of St. Vincent le 
Blanc catch monkies in feveral kinds of 
traps and fnares. Sometimes, when they 
have caught the young ones, they put 
them into a cage, and appear to teaze 
and torment them, in order that they 
may likewife catch the parents. 
‘The hunters of fome countries place 
near the haunts of monkies veffels con- 
taining ftrong and intoxicating «liquors. 
The animals drink of them, and in a 
fhort time become fo drunk as to le 
down on the fpot and fall alleep. 
Some of the Indians afcend to the 
fummits of the mountams in which the 
animals breed, and conitruct there a pile 
of wood, round the bafe of which they 
{pread a quantity of maize.. They place 
on the pile fome fubftance, which, on 
being expofed to heat, explodes with 
tremendous noife. This Is contrived to 
explode during the time that the mon- 
kies aro employed in devouring the 
maize, and, in the terror and attonith- 
ment, the old animals {camper off on all 
fides with the utmoft rapidity, leaving 
their young ones a prey to the hunters. 
The dextezicy of moukies is fuch, that, 
although burthened by their ottspring 
clinging to their backs, they can leap , 
from tree to tree, if the difiance is not 
very great, and fecure their hold among 
the behets with the greateft certainty. 
When they perce ive any perfon taking 
aim at them, either with a gun or bow, 
they cry out and grind dient teeth pens 
times in the mott horrible manner. They 
are often able to avoid the arrows that 
are fhot at them, and fometimes they 
even catch them in their hands. When 
any one of their community is thot, and 
falls to the ground, all the reft fet upa 
difmal and tremendous howl, which 
makes all the adjacent mountains and 
woods refound. If a monkey 15 wound- 
ed, and does not fall, it frequently bap- 
pens that his eonypanions will feize and 
carry it off far beyond the reach of their 
evemy: and miferabie is the fate of that 
hunter who is imprudent enough to yen- 
ture near their haunts during that fame 
day. When the animals re- -alcend the 
trees, they each carry a itone in their 
hands, and generally another im their 
mouths ; zad, uv fuch cafe, thefe are 
thrown at their adverflary orn a Core 
rectnefs of aim that is truly aftonifhing, 
The inhabitants of feveral countries, 
derive ameans of fubfiltence trom tne Reth 
Mr. Milne’s Oration on Flamborough-head Light House. 
13h 
of thefe animals. We are affured by Con- 
damine, that in Cayenne the monkies 
are the kind of game that is more fie- 
quently purfued than any other; and 
that the Indians of the country borders 
ing on the river of the Amazons are pe- 
culiarly fond of their fief. Their fat is 
efteemed a fovereign remedy for ftitfefs 
in the joints. In ‘the Portuguefe fettle- 
ments in South America, powdered mOonk- 
kies’ bones are confidered an excellent 
fudorific, and likewife as anti-venereal. 
In the gall-bladder of one or two of the 
Indian fpecies (but particularly of the 
doric and wanderu), a kind of gall-ftone 
is fometimes found. Thefe, fays Taver- 
nier, the natives have been. Known te 
fell for as much as a hundred crowns 
each. hey will not, in general, perinit 
them to be exported out of their country 
as articles of commerce, but chiefly 
preferve them as an invaluable prefent 
to foreign ambatfadors refiding amongtt 
them. They are conlidered to ‘poftefs all 
the properties that have been attributed 
to the moft precious of the bezoar 
ftones. 
Chrifi Church, 
Feb, 1, 1807. 
ee — 
or the Monthly Magazine. 
ORATION delivered by BENJAMIN MILNF, 
ESQ. COLLECTOR of Ais MAJESTY’s CUS- 
TOMS dé BRIDLINGTON, on the fir/t 
EXHIBITION of the NEW LIGHTS af 
FLAMBOROUGH-HEAD.”* 
OME, in the plenitude of power, 
euriched with the plunder of con- 
quered provinces, and elated with pride, 
erected ftately pillars, ornamented with 
exquifite feulpture, to commemorate the 
achievements of her illuftrious citizens ; 
but thofe fplendid embellifhments were 
the oftentatious monuments of an uns 
bounded ambition which grafped at uni- 
verfal dominion, and in the career of 
victory extended a wide feene of ruin 
and defolation. Under the mfluence of 
a better principle, and for purpofes in- 
finitely more ufeful, this fuperb edifice 
W. Bincreyy, 
* The height of the building from the 
bafis to the fummit is 85 feet, and from the 
levelof the fea 250 feet —The lanthorn con- 
tains three frames, with feven large lamps 
and refleGtors in each, making in the whole 
twenty-one, The lights feval¥ey and -the 
motion is horizontal. One of the lights is 
red, to diftinguifh Flamborough lights from 
all ot hers; and in a clear night, “they may 
pe feen at the diftance of thirty miles. 
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