STUDIES OF NATURE. 



beyond recovery, the fmaller fpecies of Mankind 



to the greater. 



There are no races of dwarfs, nor of giants. 

 Thofe which are exhibited at fairs, are little men 

 coiitradedj or tall over-grown fellows, without 

 proportion and without vigor. They re-produce 

 not themfelves eicher in miniature or magnitude, 

 whatever pains may have been taken by certain 

 Princes to procure a diftinft propagation; among 

 others, by the late King of Pruffia, Frederic II. 

 Befides, Do fufficient varieties of proportion ofT:he 

 Human Species ilUie from the hand of Nature to 

 merit the diftinctive appellation of dwarfs and 

 giants ? Is there between any two of them fo great 

 a difference, as between a little Sardinian poney 

 and a huge Brabant horfe ; as between a fpaniel, 

 and one of the large Danifli dogs which run be- 

 fore our coaches ? 



All nations have been from the beginning, and 

 flill are, with very litde difference, and very few 

 exceptions, of the fame ftature. 1 have feen 

 Egyptian Mummies, and the bodies of the 

 Guanches * of the Canary illands wrapped up in 

 ' their 



* Guanches, are the fkeletons, covered with the fkin, of the 

 original inhabitants of the Canary Iflands. The body of the 



Guancho 



