"Defcrlpthn of a Divnrf. ij 



from it on account of its dearnefs, when they fpared nothing 

 in their icafonings that could gratify the organs of tafte. 

 Pepper, for example, was fold in large quantities at more 

 than its" weight in gold or filver*: neverthelefs, it was fp 

 much cftecmed that it was the moft common of all fpices, 

 and it is fcarccly ever omitted by Apicius in fix hundred 

 difljes. — Our fwgar was therefore unknown to the antient 

 Greeks and Romans. 



M. Defcription of a Dwarf of a very remarkable Conforma^ 

 tion. By Baron F. Von Wurmb, late Secretary to the 

 Batavian Hociety of the Arts and Sciences in the ^Jland ef 

 Java f, 



x\ FEW years ago there was feen at Batavia a native of 

 the ifland of Bali J, named Kitip, who was i'o fmall, and at 

 the fame time diminiflied in lb fynimetric a manner, that he 

 deferves to be confidefed as one of the rare ft pha^nomena in 

 the animal oeconomy of nature. 



His whole length amounted onlv to two feet eleven inches 

 Englifh meafuro, or about 33^ Rhinlandifh inches j and the 

 reduction of his body on both fides fo regularly alike, that 

 the opinion of Buffbn refpefting the power of fimple parts 

 afting on both fides with equal force, from which arife the 

 double parts on the expanfion of the animal body, feems to 

 be fully confirmed. The head, though by far too large for 

 the body of this dwarf, and which might have fuited one of 

 lix feet, exhibited in other refpefts nothing remarkable. 

 His countenance, confidering his race, was not difagrceable, 

 as the features feemed to cxprefs a grave and not unpleafant 

 difpofition. His hair was long and black, but here and there 

 a little gray, bccaufc he had already attained to the fortieth 

 year of his age. Like mod of his countrymen, he had no 

 beard. His Ikin was of a brownifli colour. Jlis flioulders 

 were broad, and his eheft ftrong. The belly had the ufual 

 form, only that it was too much contradrled towards the 

 lower part. His arms were too long in proportion to the 

 body, and a little twifted or turned outwards. The lower 

 part of the anns was only half as long as that above the 



' Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. xii. c. 7. 



t From the Traiifaftions t)f the above Society. 



X Bali or Balei is one of the fmall iflands lying on the ieaft co^ft of 

 J.iva, the inhabitants of which carry on a tradt- in Haves with BHiavia. 

 and procure in return fuch articles at they ftatid in jitcd of. This illanJ 

 is called alio Leffcr Java, 



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