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CHAP. IV, 



Of the habitation of man in the natural Jl ate, — // ivas in cave', 

 *which nature furniJJjed, or ivhich he dug out of the rocks. — This 

 proved by the authority of antient authors-^- and monuments Jlill ex- 

 tjling. — Man as various in the form of his body, as in any thing 

 elfe. — Of men toith tails. — Of Satyrs y ivith feet of gcatSy and 

 *with horns upon their heads. — This proved by the tejlimony of St. 

 Jerome. — Of men ivithout heads, but ivith eyes in their breafls ; — > 

 and of men ivith only one eye in their forehead .—~Thefe facts attejl- 

 ed ^/ St. Auguftlne. — Of men ivith the heads of dogs— -proved by 

 the teflimony of fever al authors. — Of the Sphynx, — The exiflcnce 

 of fuch an animal only attefed by Agar thar chides. — This author 

 had a very good opportunity of being informed. — His ivork is ex- 

 tant , and bears no 7nark of fable or romance. — No proof that fuch 

 animals did never exifiy that they are not noiv to be found. — Rea- 

 fon ivhy they fioould have ceafed to exifl. — The ivonderful variety 

 of the outivard form of man, as ivell as of his inivard form. — Of 

 the variety of the fze of men in diferent ages and different nations of 

 'the Ivor Id. — The civilized I fe makes a great difference in this re- 

 fpefl. — But there is a difference alfo in the natural flat e. — This 

 proved by the example of the Ourang Outang, 



THAT man is more varIous,'in his diet and manner of life, than 

 any other animal, fo various, that he is both a land and a fea 

 animal, I think I have proved in the preceding chapter. A fhelter 

 from the weather, and an habitation at land, Nature furniflied him, 

 while in the ftate of nature, as well as his food ; for he was proted- 



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