curiofity, for fix Spanish dollars: it live'd with me feven months, but then dye'd of a flux. He was too young to fhew me many pranks; therefor, i fhal onely tel you he was a great thief, and love'd strong liquors; for, if our backs were turn'd, he would be at the punch-bowl, and very often would open the brandy-cafe, and put it. very carefully into its place again.* He flept lyeing along, in a human posture, with one hand under his head. † He could not fwim, but i know not whether he might not have been capable of being taught. If, at any time, i was angery with him, he would figh, fob, and cry, til he found that i was reconcile'd to him; and, though he was but about twelve months old

* Doctor Tylon relates of his pygmie: "Once it was made drunk with punch, but it was observe'd, that, after that time, it would never drink above one cup, and refuse'd the offer of more than what he found agree'd with him." (Ana· tomy, &c. p. 30.)

+"After our pygmie was taken," fays doctor Tyfon, "and a little ufe'd to wear cloaths, it was fond enough of them; and what it could not put on its' felf, it would bring in 'its' hands to fome of the company, to help 'it' to put [it] on. It would lie in a bed, place' its' head on the pillow, and pull the cloaths over 'it', as a man would do"...It was very ful of lice, he ads, exactly like those on human bodys: Signor Rbedi obferveing in moft animals a particular fort of louse.

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when he dye'd, yet he was ftronger than any

man."*

"I myself," fays lord Monboddo, "faw at Paris one of these [ouran-outangs], whose skin was stuf d...He had exactly the shape and features of a man; and particularly i was inform'd that he had organs of pronunciation as perfect as we have. He live'd feveral years at Verfailles, and dye'd by drinking fpirits. He had as much of the understanding of a man as could be expected from his education, and perform'd many little officeës to the lady with whom he live'd; but never learn'd to fpeak. I was wel inform'd too," ads his lordship, " of one of them belonging to a French gentleman in India, who use'd to market for him, but was likewise

to go

mute." +

*Voyage to Borneo, 1718, p. 37. This young outang display'd more intelligence, and even posfefs'd much more ftrength, at the age of twelve months, than a buman being (as he is call'd) was ever known to do at the age of twelve years. See Tyfons Anatomy, &c. p. 23.

Origin and progress of language, i, 175. In a note, after quoteing a passage from Rousseau, who rejects "with great contempt, the notion of those who think that speech is natural to man," his lordship observes: "Now if we get over that prejudice, and do not infist that other arts of life, which the ouran-outangs want, are, likewife, natural to man, it is impossible we can refuse them the appellation of men." He,

The writeër or compileër of these pageës was, a few years ago, told by a lady, who had it from another, of her own acquaintance, an eyewitness, of an ourang-outang, in the East-Indies, which was fix feet high, and fat at table in the dress of a military officer: a gueft, excessively disgusting to the fair and delicate fpectatress!

The king of Dahomé, in Africa, is say'd to have a guard of men, who very much resemble monkeys, or, in other words, of monkeys, who very much resemble men; and which are, doubtlefs, ourang-outangs. The Mocoes or Eboes, according to Edwards, " appear to be the lowest and most wretched of all the nations of Africa," and "the conformation of the face, in a great majority of them, very much refembles that of the baboon."*

Collins, in his description of the natives of New-Holland (or New South-Wales), fays, "Their nofeës are flat, nostrils wide, eyes much funk in the head, and cover'd with thick eye

elsewhere, in the fame,volume, fays he had hear'd of these human animals being seven feet high.

* Hiftory of the Weft-Indies, ii, 75. The three attendants of the Birman officer, who vifited colonel Symes, fquated upon their heels on the deck, in an attitude and manner much refembleing baboons, allthough they were wel-proportion'd ftrong men. (Embassy to Ava, i, 324.)

brows. Many," whom he faw, "had very prominent jaws; and there was one man, who, but for the gift of fpeech might very wel have pass'd for an ourang-outang. He was remarkablely hairy; his arms appear'd of an uncommon length; in his gait he was not perfectly upright; and, in his whole manner, seem'd to have more of the brute, and less of the human fpecies about him than any of his countrymen." "The gift of speech," however, which he muft, if at all, have acquire'd in his infancy, wil not, alone, pre. vent his actually being what he "might very wel have pafs'd for."

"I could produce," fays Rousfeau," several inftanceës of human quadrupeds: particularly that of the child, who was found, in 1344, near Heffe-Casfel, where he had been fuckle'd by wolves, and who use'd to say, afterward, at prince Henrys court, he would rather return to live with the wolves again, than to live among mankind. He had contracted so invincible a habit of walking on his hands, that it was necessary to faften pieceës of wood to him so as to keep him upright on his feet. It was the fame," he says,

* P. 354.

+ It is, by no mean, credible, that this wolf-boy say'd this, or could utter a fingle syllable.

"with another child, found, in 1694, in the forets of Lithuania, and train'd up among bears. M. de Condillac fays, he did not fhew the leaft fign of reason, but walk'd on his hands and feet, and had no articulate speech, but utter'd some uncouth founds, unlike the language of other men. The little favage, carry'd from Hanover to the court of Engleland, fome years ago [1718], was, with great difficulty brought to walk upon his legs. In 1719, two other favageës were found in the Pyrenean mountains, runing up and down like quadrupeds.” †

A girl was caught, in 1731, in the environs of Chalons fur-Marne, and educateëd in a convent. She relateëd as foon as he was able to fpeak, that she had live'd in the woods with a female companion, and that she had unfortunately kil'd her, by a violent blow on the head, one day, when, upon finding a chaplet under their feet, they difputeed about the exclufive posfesfion of it.

The young favage of Aveyron, a child, about eleven or twelve years of age, who had been

*This was Peter the wild boy, who, to the editours knowlege, could, when he saw him, walk very wel, on two legs, though he could scarcely utter three words, king, cwen, Lunny, and endeavour to fing a few mufical notes. † Rousseau, On the inequality of mankind, note 3.