looking-glass. 
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an apple would be like a ftrawberry ; and a fteed 
would do them no more fervice than a mafliff. 
Befides, a giant’s bones ought to be doubled in 
breadth, in proportion to their excelTive length, in 
order to preferve the fame degree of ftrength as 
other leffer creatures can exert; and, for that pur- 
pofe, his mufcles fhould, of courfe, be larger and 
more vigorous. But it appears that, for want of 
fuch necelfary ftamina, thofe overgrown beings were 
debilitated ; particularly Macreath, who was bow- 
legged on that account. 
Men under five feet high are of a low fize. The 
Laplanders are from four to four feet and a half. 
The Borandians are flill fhorter. 
It is generally believed, that a diminutive call of 
people, called Qiiimos, inhabit the mountainous 
parts of Madagascar', but they are little known, 
although Commerfon fays that he has feen one of 
their women, about thirty years old, three feet 
eight inches high. 
As the ftandard has not been fixed with refpefl 
to the talleft race, fo far as to afcertain where it be- 
gins to claim the appellation of giants ; we are like- 
wife at a lofs how to draw that diftinguilhing line 
which fliould feparate the fhorteft clafs of mankind 
from dwarfs. 
B'ebt, however, was undoubtedly of this latter de- 
fcription, as he was only two feet nine inches high at 
his death, in 1764 . He died at the age of 23 , in the 
palace 
