22 A Philological Effay concerning 



and others extreamly little, he infers, ^<e certe cum in Animalihus & Vs" 

 getabilihuf fiaftt i) cur in Humana j^ecie non fit probabik^ baud video: im- 

 primis cum detur magnitudinis excejjus Gigant<eus ; cur non etiam dabitur 

 Defe^us ? Huia ergo dantur Gigantes, dabuntur & Pygmtei. ^am con- 

 fequetttiam ut firmam^ admittit CardaniK^ (t) licet de Pygm<eis hoc tantitm 

 concedat^ qui pro miraculo^ nonpro Gente, How Cardan , tho' he allows 

 this Confequence, yet in the fame place he gives feveral Reafons why 

 the Pygmies could not be Men, and looks upon the whole Story as fabu- 

 lous. Bartholine concludes this Chapter thus : TJlterihs ut Probabilitatem 

 fulciamus^ addendum Sceleton Pygm£i, quod Drefdse vidimus inter alia pin- 

 rima, fervatum in Arce ferenijf. "EXtOioXxsSzxoVLix^ altitudine infiaCubitum^ 

 Ofjzum foliditate, proportioneque turn Capitis, turn aliorum 5 ut Embrionem, 

 aut Artificiale quid Nemo rerum peritus Juj^icari pojjit. Addita infuper eU 

 Infcriptio Veri Pygmsei. I hereupon looked into Dr. Brorvns Travels in- 

 to thofe Parts, who has given us a large Catalogue of the Curiofities, the 

 Ele&or of Saxony had at Drefden, but did not find amongft them this 

 Sceleton 5 which, by the largenefs of the Head, I fufpedt to be the Sce- 

 leton of an Orang-Outang, or our wild Man. But had he given us either 

 a Figure of it, or a more particular Defcription, it had been a far greater 

 Satisfadtion. 



The Title o£ Bartholine's Jix:th~€hapter \s, Pygmaos ejffe auffuijfe ex va' 

 riis eorum adjunUis, accidentibm , 8cc. ab Authoribus defcriptis ojienditur. 

 As firft, their Magnitude : which he mentions from Ctejlas, Pliny, Gelli- 

 as and Juvenal ; and tho' they do not all agree exaftly, 'tis nothing. 

 Autorum hie dijjenfus nuUus elf (faith Bartholine) etenimficut in nofiris ho- 

 minibus, it a indubie in Pygm£is non omnes ejufdem magnitudinis. 2. The 

 Place and Country : As Cte//as (he faith) places them in the middle of /«- 

 dia-j Arijiotle and Pliny at the Lakes above JEgypt^ Homer's Scholiafi in 

 the middle of JEgypt 5 Pliny at another time faith they are at the Head 

 of the G(i«^ej-, and fometimes at Ger^WiZ, wh\chis\n Thracia, which be- 

 ing near Scythia , confirms (he faith) Anania's Relation. Mela places 

 them at the Arabian Gulf^ and Paulus Jovius docet Pygmaos ultra Japo- 

 nem. efje \ and adds, has Autorum dijfenjiones facile fuer it coneiliare % nee 

 mirum diverfas relationes a Plinio aiiditas. For ( faith he ) as the Tartars 

 often change their Seats, fince they do not live in Houfes, but in Tents, 

 fo 'tis no wonder that the Pygmies often change theirs , fince inflead of 

 Houfes they live in Caves or Huts, built of Mud, Feathers, and Egg- 

 ihels. And this mutation of their Habitations he thinks is very plain 

 from Pliny, where fpeaking ofGerania, he faith, Pygmaorum Gens fuiffe 

 Cnon jam ejje) proditur, creduntque a Gruibus fugatos. Which palTage 

 (faith Bartholine) had Adrian Spi geli us cor\£\dexed, he would notfofoon 

 have left Arijiotle s Opinion, becaufe Franc. Alvares the Portuguefe did 

 not find them in the place where Ari^otle left them; for the Cranes, it 



( t ) Cardan, de Rerum vmetate, lib. 8. cap. 40^ 



may 



