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Rh we may add, that the proportion of 25 to 24 is no extravagant or improbable exces of tature above that of ordinary men, for one o celebrated for trength, activity, and other athletic exercies, as Hercules is reported to have been.

Suppoing the height of an ordinary man to be five feet ten inches, Englih meaure, the addition of a 24th part will make that of Hercules to have been rather under ix feet and one inch, which is no extraordinary height, though uperior to the common tandard of mankind. TABLES