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the marks of old age, and weighing only thirteen 
pounds, having fallen away fix pounds fince his 
feventh year. 
At the fame time the Norfolk Dwarf made his 
public appearance, two feet five inches high, and 
twenty-feven pounds and a half in weight; while at 
Amjiordam a Frifelander was fliewn of the fame 
fize twenty-fix years old. 
A PoUJJi gentleman, two feet four inches high, 
appeared at Paj'is in 1760; two and twenty years 
old ; lively, well fnaped, and converfant with feve- 
ral languages: he had an elder brother two feet 
ten inches hig-h. 
Carda?i Rnd Muralt mention another of two feet. 
The fmalleft kind feen was of 21, 18, and even 16 
inches. But thefe diminutive creatures, difperfed 
in different countries, do not form a peculiar race 
of men, but untimely and degenerated produflions 
of the human fpecies. 
On the other hand, and in the oppofite extreme, 
giants have over-leaped the limits of common 
growth, from extraordinary powers or caprices of 
nature. 
Laplanders are the fliorteft known nation; of 
four to four feet and a half 
The Patagonians are the tailed, fince they Hand 
at fix to thirteen feet, according to the voyages of 
difeoverers ; but, as we have already faid, thefe 
matters require further elucidations. 
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