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previously, in connection with Geography, and, in the 

 " Mappa Mundi " (one of the earliest preserved English 

 maps), now in Hereford Cathedral, which dates from the 

 very early part of the fourteenth century, nearly the whole 

 of the fanciful men hereafter mentioned are pourtrayed. 



Sluper, who wrote in 1572, gives us the accompanying 

 picture of a Cyclope, with the following remarks : 



" De Polipheme & de Ciclopiens 

 Tout mention Poetes anciens : 

 On dit encor que ce lignage dure 

 Auec vn ceil selon ceste figure." 



Pliny places the Cyclopes " in the very centre of the 



