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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.
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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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