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I ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-UKE APES. Ancient traditions, wlien tested by the sevi of modern investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere dreams : but it is singular how often the dream tarns out to have been a half-waking one, pre- saging a reality, owed the dis- of the the Atlantis was an imagination , but Columbus found a western world: and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and existence only in the realms of art,ereaturesap- proaching man more nearly than they in essential structure, and yet as FiH, 1. — Simiie magimti siGooi^le
