which the Ancients thought to be a Branch of the Nile, as he proves from Pliny, Solinus and AEthicus.  And Ptolomy (he tells us) places the Nubae hereabout. 4.  Because Aristotle makes the Pygmies to be Troglodytes, and so were the Nubae. 5.  He urges that Story of Nonnosus which I have already mentioned, and thinks that those that Nonnosus met with, were a Colony of the Nubae; but afterwards adds, Quos tamen absit ut putemus Statura fuisse Cubitali, prout Poetae fingunt, qui omnia in majus augent. But this methinks spoils them from being Pygmies; several other Nations at this rate may be Pygmies as well as these Nubae.  Besides, he does not inform us, that these Nubae used to fight the Cranes; and if they do not, and were not Cubitales, they can’t be Homer’s Pygmies, which we are enquiring after.  But the Notion of their being Men, had so possessed him, that it put him upon fancying they must be the Nubae; but ’tis plain that those in Nonnosus could not be a Colony of the Nubae; for then the Nubae must have understood their Language, which the Text saith, none of the Neighbourhood did.  And because the Nubae are Troglodytes, that therefore they must be Pygmies, is no Argument at all.  For Troglodytes here is used as an Adjective; and there is a sort of Sparrow which is called Passer Troglodytes.  Not but that in Africa there was a Nation of Men called Troglodytes, but quite different from our Pygmies.  How far Bochartus may be in the right, in guessing the Lakes of the Nile (whereabout Aristotle places the Pygmies) to be the Fountains of the River Astaborus, which in his description, and likewise the Map, he places in the Country of the Avalitae, near the Mossylon Emporium; I shall not enquire.  This I am certain of, he misrepresents Aristotle where he tells us,[B] Quamvis in ea fabula hoc saltem verum esse asserat Philosophus, Pusillos Homines in iis locis degere:  for as I have already observed; Aristotle in that Text saith nothing at all of their being Men:  the contrary rather might be thence inferred, that they were Brutes.  And Bochart’s Translation, as well as Gaza’s is faulty here, and by no means to be allowed, viz.  Ut aiunt, genus ibi parvum est tam Hominum, quam Equorum; which had Bochartus considered he would not have been so fond it may be of his Nubae.  And if the [Greek:  Noboi Pygmaioi] in Hesychius are such Pygmies as Bochartus makes his Nubae, Quos tamen absit ut putemus staturta fuisse Cubitali, it will not do our business at all; and neither Homer’s Authority, nor Aristotle’s does him any Service.