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Rh pygmies, which Pliny, Aulus Gellius, and Strabo ay, were three pithames in height; or, as Pliny expreiies it, "ternos dodrantes non excedente;" and Aulus Gellius, "non longiores ee quam pedes duos et quadrantem."

Eutathius, as Mr. Barré alledges, ays of thee people, that they were, not of a cubit's ize; and then reckoning the cubit as a foot only, he till farther reduces the ize of thee little folks. But I think Eutathius meant no more than to repreent in trong terms the diminutive ize of the pygmies, and not to aign to them any determinate proportion. Eutathius had before oberved, that the, or four fingers breadth, was one third of the pithame; and of coure, that two pithames made a , or foot and a half.

Again, Mr. Barré, taking it for granted that the Greek cubit was equal to the Roman foot, adds, that of coure 600 Greek feet were equal to 400 Roman feet; and that there mut be 12½ Olympic tadia to make up the mile: and as the Pythic tadium was greater by $2⁄5$, it Inuit follow, that even and a half of the latter would be required to make up the mile; and that 7500 Greek feet, equal to 5000 Greek cubits, or 5000 Roman feet, would be equal to a Pythic Radium.

But Herodotus and Diodorus, neither of whom reckoned by the Pythic tadium, aign 3600 tadia for the circumference of the lake