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that, if men in antient times were healthier, longer lived, and of 

 greater fize, they were alfo ftronger ; for, though it fometimes hap- 

 pen among us, that a man is of greater fize in one rerpe(n: than ano- 

 ther man, I mean taller, and yet is a weaker man, that never happens 

 among favages, who are always broad in proportion to their height : 

 So that they are not, as we often are, the weaker for being tall ; 

 which muft be the cafe when there is not a proportional breadth. 



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