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lions of the brain, and very odd beings they are. Some 

 are supplied with explanatory descriptions, but others 

 are left to the discrimination of the reader. Enor- 

 mous development of some part of the human body is 

 the usual method in which the various monsters assert 

 themselves. There are the Pannothi of Scythia, whose 

 ears are so large that they cover the shoulders. There 

 are men with enormous under lips, which fall over 

 their breasts. There are the Unipeds, men with only 

 one leg, but then the foot makes ample amends for the 

 absence of a second limb. It is about as large as an 

 ordinary umbrella, and is used for the same purpose — 

 the Unipeds being in the habit of lying on their backs, 

 and sheltering themselves from sun or rain by the 

 enormous foot. These men can of course only hop, 

 but they do so with such prodigious celerity that they 

 chase and catch stags by hopping after them. 



Sometimes the monsters enjoy a superfluity of 

 members. There are men with two heads, like the 

 Welsh giant who was ignominiously worsted by Tom 

 Thumb. There are men with four eyes, men with four 

 arms, and men with four legs, balanced by Monoculi, 

 or men who have only one eye — which is set in 

 the middle of the forehead — and men who wear no 

 particular head, but have their eyes, noses, and mouths 

 placed in their breasts. 



Of course there are dwarfs, and a single combat 

 between a pigmy and a crane is drawn with some 

 vigour. The crane seems likely to get the better of the 



