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■own part the laft undoubted difcovery of the Patago- 
nian giants, mentioned, but' not credited in any 
previous account, will teach me not to dilhelieve entire- 
ly what is not a contradiction, on the very hate of it. 
I therefore do not abfolutely dilhelieve Mr. Grofe’s late 
defcriptiop of pigmies which are found in a foreft of 
the Carnatic, though I admit fuch fads require the 
ftrongeft teftimony before one fliould give a complete 
affent. In fhort^ I am neither for implicit belief or 
difbelief of fuch extraordinary fads; and it is remark- 
able that Ariftole, in his account of a nation of pig- 
mies, lays, “ this is not a fable, but a truth/’ 
Efi cfg o jo7to; cvrog, vrepi ov ol n vfpcuoi kcitoixovotiv' ou 
yoi() Tovro y.\j ( l0Q, aXKct 6<r< Kccjcc tyjv aXydetop, yivog p- 
jcoov i usv (&)(T7re^ X&ytlotF), y.cu ctvioi, non ot i7r7roi» And, dc 
Nat. anim. 1 . viii. cap. 12. 
But to return to the extra d from Giraldus which 
hath been looked upon as one of the molt glaring 
falfities, in this traveller. 
It will appear to any one who reads the whole of 
his Iter, and is at all acquainted with the geography of 
the country, that Giraldus (who was a native of 
Pembrokefhire) never was himfelf in thefe mountains 
of Snowden ; he had therefore only picked up this 
account, from fome of the inhabitants of the towns, 
through which the Archbifhop palled, who them- 
felves probably received it from mountaineers. 
There are few inhabitants of the principality, who 
have ever been in this trad of mountains; and I, who 
have been in m oft parts ol them, have always been 
informed, at my fetting out, that the roads were 
nearly unpaffable. 
Upon 
