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That clothes, as well as houfes, were the inventions of art, and 

 not uled by man In his natural ftaie, I hold to be certain. Our fa- 

 cred books have told us, that the firft men were niked, as the inha- 

 bitants of the Ladrone and Pelew Iflands are at this day. And the 

 fame books tell us, that the firft clothing of men was {kins, fuch as 

 the inhabitants of Terra del Fuego, and many other barbarous na- 

 tions, wear at prefent. 



Nor is man lefs various in the figure of his body, than In the o- 

 ther things I have mentioned ; and the individuals of the fpecies 

 are, I am perfaaded, more different one from another than thofe of 

 any other fpecies. And firft, that there are men with tails, fuch as 

 dogs and cats have, 1 think I have proved beyond the poflibility of 

 doub: *• And not only are there tailed men extant ; but men, 

 fuch as the antients dtfcribe Satyrs, have been found, who had 

 not only tails, but the feet of goats, and horns on their heads. 

 One of this kind, we are told by St. Jerome, was, under the 

 reign of Conftantine the Emperor, publicly fhewn in Alexandria, 

 while he was alive ; and after he was dead, his body was preferved 

 with fait, carried to Antioch, and there ihewn to the Emperor f : 



So 



561. 562. There are likewife to be feen in Upper Egypt, near to Thebes, Syringes, 

 conGiting of many paflages, which lead to a variety of apartments. See Ammianus 

 Marcellinus, lib. 22. p. 263. And there were in that part of Judea called Galilee, 

 Subterrants, where dwelt great numbers of men, as Jofephus informs us, lib. 14. cap. 

 15. See alfo, upon this fubjecV, Bryant's Mythology, vol. 3d, p. 502, 503. 



• Vol. I. of Origin of Language, xd edit. p. Z57. and following; and vol. IlL of 

 this work, p. 250 Belides thefe authorities, there is one Wolfe, a German, who tra- 

 velled in the iflacd of Ceylon, and who fays, that one of the titles of the Kicg of 

 that iiland, is Dejiendani of the Tailad Monarch. 



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