[Footnote A:  Cardan. de Rerum varietate, lib. 8. cap. 40.]

The Title of Bartholine’s sixth Chapter is, Pygmaeos esse aut fuisse ex variis eorum adjunctis, accidentibus, &c. ab Authoribus descriptis ostenditur.  As first, their Magnitude:  which he mentions from Ctesias, Pliny, Gellius, and Juvenal; and tho’ they do not all agree exactly, ’tis nothing. Autorum hic dissensus nullus est (saith Bartholine) etenim sicut in nostris hominibus, ita indubie in Pygmaeis non omnes ejusdem magnitudinis. 2.  The Place and Country:  As Ctesias (he saith) places them in the middle of India; Aristotle and Pliny at the Lakes above AEgypt; Homer’s Scholiast in the middle of AEgypt; Pliny at another time saith they are at the Head of the Ganges, and sometimes at Gerania, which is in Thracia, which being near Scythia, confirms (he saith) Anania’s Relation. Mela places them at the Arabian Gulf; and Paulus Jovius docet Pygmaeos ultra Japonem esse; and adds, has Autorum dissensiones facile fuerit conciliare; nec mirum diversas relationes a, Plinio auditas. For (saith he) as the Tartars often change their Seats, since they do not live in Houses, but in Tents, so ’tis no wonder that the Pygmies often change theirs, since instead of Houses, they live in Caves or Huts, built of Mud, Feathers, and Egg-shells.  And this mutation of their Habitations he thinks is very plain from Pliny, where speaking of Gerania, he saith, Pygmaeorum Gens fuisse (non jam esse) proditur, creduntque a Gruibus fugatos. Which passage (saith Bartholine) had Adrian Spigelius considered, he would not so soon have left Aristotle’s Opinion, because Franc.  Alvares the Portuguese did not find them in the place where Aristotle left them; for the Cranes, it may be, had driven them thence.  His third Article is, their Habitation, which Aristotle saith is in Caves; hence they are Troglodytes. Pliny tells us they build Huts with Mud, Feathers, and Egg-shells.  But what Bartholine adds, Eo quod Terrae Cavernas inhabitent, non injuria dicti sunt olim Pygmaei, Terrae filii, is wholly new to me, and I have not met with it in any Author before:  tho’ he gives us here several other significations of the word Terrae filij from a great many Authors, which I will not trouble you at present with. 4.  The Form, being flat nosed and ugly, as Ctesias. 5.  Their Speech, which was the same as the Indians, as Ctesias; and for this I find he has no other Author. 6.  Their Hair; where he quotes Ctesias again, that they make use of it for Clothes. 7.  Their Vertues and Arts; as that they use the same Laws as the