28 A Thilologkal Ej]ay concerning 



for their own fakes, they could not do lefs than make him their Geuera- 

 Irjjimo 3 but our Author is modeft in not declaring what they were. 



Jfaac Vojjius feems to unfettle all, and endeavours utterly to ruine the 

 whole Story : for he tells us, If you travel all over Africa, you (hall not 

 meet with either a Crane or Pygmie : Se mhari (faith (h) Ifaac Vojjiu-s) 

 Ariftotelem, quod tamferio affirmet non ejfe fabellam , qH£ de Pygmak & 

 Bel/o, quod cum Grmhfs gerant, narrantur. Si quis totam pervadat Afri - 

 cam, Kfil/cfs vel Grues vel Pygmaos invcniet. Now one would wonder 

 more at Vofflus, that he (hould affert this of At/?*?^/^, which he never faid. 

 And fince Fojjiuf is fo miftaken in what he relates of Arijlotle ; where he 

 might fo eafily have been in the right, 'tis not improbable, but he may 

 be out in the reft too : For who has travelled all Afiica over, that could 

 inform him ? And why fliould he be fo peremptory in the Negative,when 

 he had fo pofitive an Affirmation of Arifiotle to the contrary ? or if he 

 would not h&Vitve Arijiotles Authority ,methinks he fliould AriJiophanes'Sy 



who tells us (i), STT&f'p&II' 07721/ IMvTi^V@^ ^psej/^OOJ/ l^ rim /KlSvluO fA/tlcf)^Uipyi. 



'Tis time to fow rehen the noify Crams take their flight into Libya. Which 

 Obfervation is likewife made by Hejiod, Theognis , Aratus, and others. 

 And Maximjfs Tyrius (as I find him quoted in Bochartm) faith, Af jie^t- 

 voi V^ AiY>'^is Mpa, ^pa^ dpgdfJLivaij, sk dn^o/JUH'cti to 3aA7r{^, rQiV(x.(7aij -^i- 

 pvyxi ct)am^ WU, <^l^v1ai) ^d tS dip@u iu^v 7^f ^kjuQSv yy^i. i. e. Grues per a- 

 fia^em ex iEgypto abfcedetttes , quia Valorem pati non pojfunt, alis velortim 

 injiar expanjis^ per aerem ad Scythicam plagam re£la feruntur. Which 

 fully confirms that Migration of the Cranes that Arifiotle mentions. 



But Vofflm I find, tho' he will not allow the Cranes^ yet upon fecond 

 Thoughts did admit of Pygmies here : For this Story of the Pygmies and 

 the Cranes having made fo much noife , he thinks there may be fome- 

 thing of truth in it -^ and then gives us his Conjefture, how that the 

 Pygmies may be thofe Dvparfs^ that are to be met with beyond the Foun- 

 tains of the Nile ; but that they do not fight Cranes but Elephants, and 

 kill a great many of them, and drive a confiderable Traffick for their 

 Teeth with the Jagi, who fell them to thofe of Congo and the Portuguefe. 

 I yvill give you Vojjlm's own words 5 Attamen ( faith C^J he) ut folent 

 fabella non de nihilo fingi & aliquod plerttnque continent veri, id ipfumquO' 

 que hlc fa&um ejje exifiimo. Cerium quippe eB ultra 'NWifontes multos re-" 

 periri Nanos, qui tamen non cum Gruibus, fed cumElephantis perpetuum ge- 

 rant helium. Pr<ecipuum quippe Eborfs commercium in regno magni Macoki 

 per ifios tranpgitur Homunciones 5 habitant in Sylvis, & mira dexteritate 

 Elephantos fagittis conficiunt. Carnibus vefcuntur. Denies vera Jagis diven- 

 dunt, il/i autem Congentibus d^ Lufitanis. 



(h) Ifatic Vojfiw de Nili almumque flnmlmm Ongme, Cap. i8. ( i) Arijlofhanes in Nubibfit. 

 (k) Ifaac Vojfm ibid. 



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