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fmallnefs of the one, and the magnitude of the 

 other, becaufe they faw the Laplanders fquatted 

 on the floor of their fmoky huts ; and the Patago- 

 nians in a polition which magnifies every objedl, 

 namely, at a diftance, on the fummit of their 

 rocky Ihores> whither they flock as foon as a veflTel 

 appears, and through the fogs which are fo fre- 

 quent in their climates, and which, it is well 

 known, greatly increafe the apparent fize of all bo- 

 dies, eipecially when in the Horizon, by refrading 

 the light wherewith they are furrounded. 



The Swedes and Norwegians, who inhabit fimi- 

 lar latitudes, in which the cold prevents, as it is 

 alleged, the expanfion of the human body, are of 

 the fame fl:ature with the natives of Senegal, where 

 the heat, for the oppofite reafon, ought to favour 

 growth ; and neither the one nor the other is taller 

 than we are. Man, over the whole Globe, is at the 

 centre of all magnitudes, of all movements, and 

 of all harmonies. His ftature, his limbs, his or- 

 gans, have proportions fo adjufted to all the works 

 of Nature, that (he has rendered them invariable 

 as their combination. He conftitutes himfelf 

 alone, a genus which has neither clafs nor fpecies, 

 dignified, by way of excellence, with the title of 

 Mankind. 



He 



