rheTYG MIES of the Ancients. 2 3 



may be , had driven them thence. His third Article is, their Habitation, 

 which Jri^iotle faith is in Caves j hence they ^xq Troglodytes. Pliny tells 

 us they build Huts with Mud, Feathers, and Egg-fhells. But vihztBar- 

 tholine adds, Kb quod Terrs Cavernas inhabitent , non injuria di&i fnnt o~ 

 Urn Vygmsi^ Terrs filii , is wholly new to me, and I have not met with 

 it in any Author before : tho' he gives us here feveral other (ignificati- 

 ons of the word Terrs filij from a great many Authors, which I will not 

 trouble you at prefent with. 4. The Form^ being flat nofed and ugly, 

 as Ctejias. 5. Their Speech, which was the fame as the Indians ^-aiS Ctefias ; 

 and for this I find he has no other Author. 6. Their Hair ; where he 

 quotes Ctefias again, that they make ufe of it for Clothes. 7. Their Ver- 

 tues and Arts ^ as that they ufe the fame Laws as the Indians^ are very juft, 

 excellent Archers, and that the Ring of India has Three thoufand of 

 them in his Guards. All from Ctefias. 8. Their Animals , as in Ctefias 5 

 and here are mentioned their Sheep, Oxen, Afles, Mules, and Horfes. 

 9. Their various Anions 5 as what Ctefias relates of their killing Hares and- 

 Foxes with CrowSjEagles,®^. and fighting the Cranes, as Homer, Pliny, 

 "Juvenal. 



Tht feventh Chapter m Bart holine has a promifing Title, An Pygmsi 

 fint homines^ and I expected here fomething more to our purpofe 5 but F 

 find he rather endeavours to anfwer the Reafons of thofe that would 

 make them Apej^ than to lay down any of his own to prove them Men, 

 hxi^ Albertm Magnus sO^xxixoxi he thinks abfurd, that makes them part 

 Men^part Beafts , they muft be either one or the other, not a Medina^ 

 between both ; and to make out this, he gives us a large Quotation out; 

 oi Cardan. But G?r^rf« fwj in the fame place argues that they are not 

 Men. As to Sueffanm (w) his Argument, that they want Reafon^ this 

 he will not grant ; but if they ufe it lefs, or more imperfectly than o- 

 thers (which yet, he faith, is not certain) by the fame parity of Rea- 

 fon, Children, the Bceotians^ Cumani and Naturals may not be reckoned 

 Men 5 and he thinks, what he has mentioned in the preceding Chapter ■ 

 out oi Ctefias, &c. {hews that they have no fmall ufe of Reafon. As to 

 Sueffanus's next Argument, that they want Religion, Juftice, ^c. this, he 

 faith, is not confirmed by any grave Writer ; and if it was,' yet it would 

 not prove that they are not Men. For this defeft ( he faith ) migl^t 

 hence happen, becaufe they are forced to live in Caves for fear of the 

 Cranes ^ and others befides them, are herein faulty. For this Opinion, 

 that the Pygmies were Apes and not Me«, he quotes likewife BenediUus 

 Varchim (x), and Joh. Tinnulus (y), and Paulus Jovius (7^), and feve- 

 ral others of the Moderns, he tells us, are of the fame mind. Imprimis 

 Geographici quos non pudmt in Mappis Geographick loco Tygmsornm fimias 

 cum Gruibus pugnantes ridicuU dipinxijje. 



( u ) Cardan, de Rerum varktate, lib. 8. cap. 40. . (w) Sueffanm Comment, in Ar'ifl. de Hiftor. Ml- 

 mah lib. 8. cap. 12. (x) Benedi^, Varchiw de Mmftrii. lingua wrnaciila. (y) Job. Tmmlm in Giotto. 

 Chofio. (z) Pitulus Joviw lib. deMu[covit. Legations. 



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