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rhe people at the entrance of the Magellanic Strait were fcen varie- 



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and meafured by Captain Wallis : *^^' he found the ftature of the 

 greater part of them, to be from live feet ten inches to fix feet high- -, 



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feveral were fix feet five inches and fix feet fix, and one of the taliefl 

 was fix feet {qvqii inches high. Mr. de Bougainville^^ found 

 none below five feet five or fix inches French meafure, and none 



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five feet nine or ten inches : but the 



of the Etoile had 



feen feveral in a preceding voyage 



fix feet high : 



thefe meafure 



ments when reduced to 



the Engliili fiiandard, give fi.ve feet ten 



inches and fix feet tv^o inches, but the lafi^ amounts to fix 



feet 4.728 inches. Mr. de la Giraudais -}-, of the Pink Etoile, 



fays, the leail: of 



faw in 1766 



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was nve 



feven inch 



French meafure, which is above five feet eleven inches Englidi. 

 Mr. DucLos GuYOTjJ in the Eagle frigate, informs us, that the 



fiiortefi: of the people feen by him in 1 766, meafured five fecc- kwtn. 



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inches French meafure=5 feet 11.498 inches Englifh : the refi: 

 were confiderably taller. Pigafetta, || in the iliip Vidoria, fav/ 



with Magalhaens at Port St. Julian, people, eight Spanilh feet hig 



w^hich are equal to feven feet four inches Engliili. Knivet, 



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*■■* Hawkefwor til's Compilation, vol. i. p. 374. 



*^ Bougainville's Voyage, EngUra tranflation, p, 142.. 



f Pernetty's Hiftory of a Voyage to the Falkland Iflands. EngUfii tranfiatioUj p. 288 

 % Ilnd. p. 273. 



[1 Pigafetta, ap. Ramufio. vol. i. p, 353 fol, 

 § Knivct's Voyage* 



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