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(3.) "The Ourang Outang, though they uſe ſticks, do not hunt, but live upon the fruits of the earth, as in the primitive ages all nations did."—Monboddo on Language.

(4.) "Animals, like men, are ſubject to diſeaſes.—Animal food muſt therefore always be dangerous."—Cheyne's Eſſay on Health, p. 20.—Other things being equal, the proper food appointed by nature for animals is eaſier digeſted, than the animalsthemſelves,