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Edwards, George, 1694-1773. / Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, etc. most of which have not, till now, been either figured or described
(1758)
Chap. III. Pla. 213. The man of the woods; L'homme sauvage, pp. 6-8
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figured the blofIorns five-leaved, and fays, they are white; the flowers I have not feen. The fruit is firfi greenifb, then ruf- fet, and laflly, when foft and ripe, it is of a red-brown colour. Each fruit divided fihews four kernels or feeds, inwardly white, with dark reddifh ikins. This tree is found w'ild in the fouthern parts of England. 6 ) fentdlesfteurs avec cinqfeuil1es; il dit qu'elles font blanches; je W'en ai pas -'z. Le fruit fl verddtre dabord, en/mite rozo/'f'tre, et eZAfn quand il eli mou et tout-d-fiit mcur, il e/? d'un rouge brun. Le fruit coupe en deux of4 e quatre pepins, blancs en dedans, et d'un rouge Jonce en dehors. Cct arbre crozt de Jfi- inenike dans le fud de l'Angleterre. CH AP. III. P LA. 213. Thle MAN of the WOODS. T HIS animal, which is one of the firit Tof the genus of Monkies, is fuppofed to come the neareft in its outward thape to man. The old ones are I-aid, by many of our voyagers to Africa and Indii, to be near fix feet high, when flanding, or walk- ing ered. The fubjeaI from which this figure was drawn, is now preferved in the Britifh Mufeum, in London: it was a young one, and about two feet and an half high when it died: it was firft foaked in fpirits of wine, then dried, and fet up in the adion I have given it, the draught being taken before its parts were too much dried or fallen in. Its ihape refembled mofit others of the Monkey kind; its hands and feet the fame. It differed from the generality in having no tail, or callous fkin behind, to fit on, as moft Monkies have; and in having the head rounder, and more human- like, than mof of its kind: the forehead was high and rifing, the nofe flat, the teeth much refembled thofe of men; the hair from the neck inclined upwwards round to the forehead, and hung down a little over the forehead and the fides of the face, L'HOMME SAUVAGE. Q N fupporfe que cet animal, qui el un des premiers du genre Singe, eji ce/'i de tous, qui approche le p/us de i'homnme par l'extc- ricur. Plifeurs Anglois, qui ont voyage' en AJjiique et aux Indes, rapportent que ceux qui ont fait leur ciue, ont pre's de j7x pieds de haut, quand ils fe tiennent de bout, et qu' is marchent fur leurs pieds de derrie're. Le Juidet d'apres lequel cette figure a ete dcainee, ef a' prcejfnt dans cette ville de Lon- dres, dans le fameux Cabinet Britannique. Il e'tit jeune, et n'avoit guere que deux pieds et demi de hauteur quandil mourut: on left dabord tremper dans de P'efprit de vin, et puis on lefit fecher; enfin on le diftofa dans 'attitude que je lui ai donne'e ici, Payant tire'avant que les parties fiient trop defe'- cbees ou retirees. II reße1mbloit par la taille a' la plu/part des autres /inges; fes mains et /-s pieds ecoient tout de me/me: mais il dif- Jeroit di gene'ral, en ce quil n' avoit ni queuU, ni peau caleufe aubas du dos Jiurquoi s' afeoir, comme en ont la p/u] art des finges, et en ce qu'il avoit la tt/te plus ronde, et plus fimblable a' celle de l'homme, que les Jinges ne l'ont d'ordinaire. Le jront etoit haant et e'leve, le nez plat, les dents fort ref- femblantes aux dents hunmaines: le poil ktoit
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