26 A Thiiokgical Effay concerning 



he feems to afiert quite the contrary : For propofing this Qiieftion, An 

 ex Vropaghie Adam velfiUorutn Noe, qtiadam genera Honihmm Monfirofa 

 prodkrnnt ? He mentions a great many monftrous Nations of Men , as 

 they are defcribed by the Indian Hijiorians, and amongft the reft, the 

 Fygmres^ the Sciopodes , See. And adds, ^ad dicam de Cynocephalis, 

 qHOruffz Can'ina Capita atqne ipfe Latratus magk Bejiias quam Homines confi- 

 tentur .<? Sed omnia Genera Hominum^ qit£ dicitntttr cjje^ ejjc credere, nan 

 eji necejfe. And afterwards fo fully exprefles himfelf in favour of the 

 Hypothejis I am here maintaining, that 1 think it a great Confirmation of 

 It. "Nam & Si mi as (faith he) & Cercopithecos, & Sphingas, finefciremm 

 non Homines ejje^ fed Bejiias^ pojfent ifii Hijiorzci de fua CitrJoJitate glorian- 

 tes velut Gentes aliquas Hominum nobis impnnita vanitate menliri. At laft 

 he concludes and determines the Queftion thus, Aut ilia , quce talia de 

 qiiibufdam Gentibusfcripta flint, vmnino nulla fnnt, aut ji ftint , Homines 

 'non flint, aut ex h.^2Lmfiint f homines ftint. 



There is nothing therefore in St. Attain that Juftifies the being of Me» 



Pj/gmies, or that the Pygmies were Men ^ he rather makes them Apes. 



And there is nothing in his SchoUafl Ludovicus Fives that tends this way. 



Tie only quotes from other Authors, what might illuftrate the Text he 



is commenting upon, and no way aflerts their being Men. I Ihall 



therefore next enquire into Bochartus's Opinion, who would have them 



to be the Nub^B or Noba. Hos Niibas Troglodyticos (faith (e) he) ad A- 



■valitem Siniim ejfe Pygmceos Vetenim miilta probant. He gives us five Rea- 



fons to prove this. As , i. The Authority oi^ Hejychius, who faith 



lC*Saj/ UvyjuctToi. 2. Becaufe Homer places tht Pygmies near the Ocean, 



where the Nnb£ were. g. Arifiotle places them at the Lakes of the Nile. 



Now by the Nile BochartusteWs us, we muft underftand the Aflaboras , 



which the Ancients thought to be a Branch of the Nile, as he proves 



from Pliny, Solinm and lEthicus. And Ptolemy (he tells us) places the 



Niibae hereabout 4.Becaufe Arijiotlc makes the Pygmies to be Troglodytes, 



and fo were the Nnb^. 5. He urges that Story of Nonnofus which I 



have already mentioned, and thinks thatthofe that Nonnofus met with, 



were a Colony of the Nuba ; but afterwards adds , ^los tamen abjtt ut 



ptitemm Statitrafiiijfe Qibitali, proiit Poetx fingnnt , qui omnia in majus au- 



gent. But this methinks fpoils them from being Pygmies ; feveral other 



Nations at this rate may be Pygmies as well as thefe Nnbte. Befides, he 



does not inform us, that thefe Nnba ufed to fight the Cranes ; and if they 



do not, and were not Cubitales, they can't be Homers Pygmies, which 



we are enquiring after. But the Notion of their being Men, had fo pof- 



fefled him, that it put him upon fancying they muft be the Ntiba ^ but 



'tis plain that tliofe in Nonnofus could not be a Colony of the Nu- 



i>£ 3 for then the Nfibie muft have underftood their Language, which the 



(e) Sim. Bochirt.Ceoiraph.SMra, Part. i. lib. 2. cap. 23. p. m. 142. 



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