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^ fuppofe^ he hath taken up|from thQ Indian Hlflorians 5 
whole Credit I have fiifticiently examined in my Dif- 
eourfe concer^mg the Pygmies of the Ancients ^ and (hall 
therefore lay no ftrefs . upon them. Your Obfkrvatim 
therefore as to Brutes^ though it may hold for themoft 
part trueV yet it is not Univerfal. And, as all, other 
Rules, may have fome Exception. I am, Sir, with the 
greateft Refpeft, 
Tour ?'//oJl Obedient HnmMe Servant^ 
Edward Tyfon. 
A fecond Letter of Dr Wallis to Dr Tylon^ on 
the fame fubje^. 
' Oxford, Jan. 23. 1701. 
SIR, 
I Received f (bme days ^go ) your Obliging Letter, 
(in Anfwer to mine about K^ic^^ayiet , or Feeding on 
Flejh 5 ) and Read it with great Content, I fhould (with, 
more earneftnefs J beg your pardon, ior having given 
you the trouble of fo Elaborate and Judicious a DiP- 
courfe 5 if I did not think I have ferved the Publick 
therein ^ and that it may give as ample fatisfaftion to 
the Learned World ( if you will permit it to be pub-^ 
lifhed ) as it hath done to me. 
I am not iond of advancing a Nevp Hjpothejis^ con- 
trary to the common fenfe of mankind. I did but fug- 
geft, to your confideration, a matter of Fad 5 without 
being Pofitive, what Conclnfion to infer from it. And I 
lliould not have ventured fo far, \l Gaffendm had not 
firft broke the Ice 3 upon a Notion not much more con- 
fiderable than that of mine. Wherein yoii have fur- 
niftied 
