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So that we ought not to treat as a fable, what the antients have toM 

 us of animals of that form*. 



We have the authority of another father of the church, for a. 

 greater fmgularity ftill of the human form ; and that is, of men 

 without heads, but with eyes in their breads. This is related by St, 

 Auguftine, who faw thefe men in Ethiopia, whether he went to 

 preach the gofpel ; and was fome time among them, and relates fe- 

 veral other particulars concerning them f. And the fame faint tells 

 us, that he faw, in the fame country, men with only one eye in their 

 forehead %, Nor do thefe fads reft folely upon the authority of St. 

 Auguftine ; but antient authors mention them, particularly Strabo, 

 who tells the ftory of men with eyes in their breafts, which he fays 

 is attefted by feveral authors whom he names, though he does not 

 believe them. Asto the men with one eye, it is related by Herodotus, 

 of a people in Scythia, who, from that quality, had their name of 

 Arlmafpians, as he interprets the word §. We muft not therefore 

 treat as a fable what Homer has told us of the Cyclops, any more 

 tlian what is related, by other antient authors, of Satyrs. 



There is another fmgularity of the human form, as great or 

 greater than any I have hitherto mentioned, and that is, of men 

 with the heads of dogs. That fuch men did exift, is attefted by the 

 authors I have eliewhere mentioned [], whofe authorities cannot, I 



think. 



• See vol. III. of this work, p. 250. where Paufanias is quoted giving an accounc 

 of Satyrs, which he had from one Euphemus, who was an eye witnefs of what at 

 related. 



f Vol. III. of this work, p. 2J2. 



If Ibid. p. 253. 



§ Ibid. p. 252.— -253. 



I Ibid. p. 263. and 264. 



