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 whoe Race early dipered in the Woods never had any Opportunity of developing its virtual Faculties, and had acquired no Degree of Perfection, but till remained in the primitive State of Nature. I hall give an Example to illutrate my Meaning.

"There are found, ays the Tranlator of the Hitory of Voyages, &c. in the Kingdom of Congo, a great many of thoe large Animals, called Orang-Outang, in the Eat Indies, which form a kind of mean Rank of Beings between Men and Baboons. Battel tells us, that in the Forets of Mayomba in the Kingdom of Loango, there are two Sorts of Monters, the larget of which are called Pongos, and the others Enjokos. The firt exactly reemble Man, but are much larger and taller. Their Face is a Human one, but with very hollow Eyes. Their Hands, their Cheeks, their Ears are quite bare of Hair, all to their Eye-Brows, which are very long. The ret of their Bodies is pretty hairy, and the Hair is of a brown Colour. In hort, the only thing by which they can be ditinguihed from the Human Species, is the Make of their Legs, which has no Calf. They walk