Excerpt from Orang-Outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris: Or the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared With That of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man The Hair of our Pygmie or Wild Man waspf a Coal-black colour, and (trait, and much more refembling the Hair of Men than the Furr of Brutes For in the Furr of Brutes, befides the longer Hair, there is ufuall'y a finer'and _{horter Pile intermixt: Here ???twas all of a kind, only about the Puhir the hair was greyilh, feemed longer, and fomewhat different, fo on the upper Lip and Chin, there were ...
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Excerpt from Orang-Outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris: Or the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared With That of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man The Hair of our Pygmie or Wild Man waspf a Coal-black colour, and (trait, and much more refembling the Hair of Men than the Furr of Brutes For in the Furr of Brutes, befides the longer Hair, there is ufuall'y a finer'and _{horter Pile intermixt: Here ???twas all of a kind, only about the Puhir the hair was greyilh, feemed longer, and fomewhat different, fo on the upper Lip and Chin, there were greyilh hairs like a Beard: And I was told by the Owners, that'once it held the Bafou it's felf, to be trimmed. The Face, Hands, and Soles of the Feet were bare and without Hair, and (0 was moft part of the Forehead: But down the fides 'of the Face 'twas very hairy the hairs there being about an Inch and half long, and longer than in molt Parts of the Body be fides. The tendency of the Hair of all the Body was downwards, but only from the Wril'rs to the Elbow 'twas upwards, (0 that at the Elbow the Hair of the Shoulder and the Arm ran contrary to one another. Now in Quadruped: the Hair in the fore-limbs have ufually the fame Inclina tion downwards, and it being here different, it fuggefled an Argument to me, as if Nature did defign it as a Biped. But we will lay no more firefs upon ir than it will bear: ' T he Hair on the back-fide of the Hands did run tranfverfe, inclining to the outfide of the Hands and thofe of the hinder fides of the Thighs were tranfverfe likewife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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