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a dlftinguifKed philofopher, contain nothing 

 bat remarks of little importance upon fome 

 plants ddfcribed by Flacourt, in his Hiftory 

 of Madagafcar. The only differtation any 

 way interefting concerns the Kimos, which 

 I fliall here tranfcribe, and add to it a ftibrt 

 memoir of M, de Modave on the fame fub- 



jea. 



** Thofe who are fond of the marvellous, 

 ** and who no doubt muft be difpleafed 

 ** with me for having red need the pretended 

 ** gigantic ftature of the Patagonians to fix 

 ** feet, will accept, perhaps, by way of in- 

 " demnification, an account of a race of 

 " pigmies who fall into the oppofite ex- 

 ** treme. I here fpeak of thofe dwarfe, in 

 ** the interior parts of the large ifland of 

 ** Madagafcar, who form a confidcrable 

 ** nation called, in the Madecalfe language, 

 ** ^imos or Kimos, The diflinguifhing 

 *' charaderiftics of thefe fmall people are, 

 M 2 " that 



