Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals; with observations on the laws and customs of several eastern nations / Written in French by M. Foucher d'Obsonville, ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.

  • Foucher d'Obsonville, 1734-1802
Date:
1784
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Credit: Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals; with observations on the laws and customs of several eastern nations / Written in French by M. Foucher d'Obsonville, ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 37® ] ments ; they have received and tranfmitted, without confufion, certain characteriftic and ftriki,ng differences in their form, hair, fize, &c. But without entering into de- tails on their exterior, I fhall endeavour to give fomething like a precife pidture of their mode of life, and the police obferved among them. Monkies differ in fize, form, and ftrength, but they are almofl equally thievifh, fly, and mifchievous 5 wherefore they have been generally driven from the habitations of men. Considered, however, with refpedt to the refemblance they bear to the human form, and the antics, hu- mour and provident Subtlety they poffefs, thefe imitative beings,notwithifanding their defedts, have ever been objects of admira- tion and even of amufement to the mod fenfible people : thus they were brought to the wife Solomon in the Chips of Tharfhifh. The Gentoos are perhaps, at prefent, the only people among whom thefe animals are Suffered to live, with a bounty which
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