believe Aristotle’s Authority, methinks he should Aristophanes’s, who tells us,[B] [Greek:  Speirein hotau men Geranos kroizon es taen libyaen metachorae]. ’Tis time to sow when the noisy Cranes take their flight into Libya.  Which Observation is likewise made by Hesiod, Theognis, Aratus, and others.  And Maximus Tyrius (as I find him quoted in Bochartus) saith, [Greek:  Hai geravoi ex Aigyptou ora therous aphistamenai, ouk anechomenai to thalpos teinasai pterygas hosper istia, pherontai dia tou aeros euthy ton Skython gaes]. i.e. Grues per aestatem ex AEgypto abscedentes, quia Calorem pati non possunt, alis velorum instar expansis, per aerem ad Scythicam plagam recta feruntur.  Which fully confirms that Migration of the Cranes that Aristotle mentions.

[Footnote A:  Isaac Vossius de Nili aliorumque stuminum Origine, Cap. 18.]

[Footnote B:  Aristophanes in Nubibus.]

But Vossius I find, tho’ he will not allow the Cranes, yet upon second Thoughts did admit of Pygmies here:  For this Story of the Pygmies and the Cranes having made so much noise, he thinks there may be something of truth in it; and then gives us his Conjecture, how that the Pygmies may be those Dwarfs, that are to be met with beyond the Fountains of the Nile; but that they do not fight Cranes but Elephants, and kill a great many of them, and drive a considerable Traffick for their teeth with the Jagi, who sell them to those of Congo and the Portuguese.  I will give you Vossius’s own words; Attamen (saith[A] he) ut solent fabellae non de nihilo fingi & aliquod plerunque continent veri, id ipsum quoque que hic factum esse existimo.  Certum quippe est ultra Nili fontes multos reperiri Nanos, qui tamen non cum Gruibus, sed cum Elephantis perpetuum gerant bellum.  Praecipuum quippe Eboris commercium in regno magni Macoki per istos transigitur Homunciones; habitant in Sylvis, & mira dexteritate Elephantos sagittis conficiunt.  Carnibus vescuntur, Dentes vero Jagis divendunt, illi autem Congentibus & Lusitanis.

[Footnote A:  Isaac Vossius ibid.]

Job Ludolphus[A] in his Commentary on his AEthiopick History remarks, That there was never known a Nation all of Dwarfs. Nani quippe (saith Ludolphus) Naturae quodam errore ex aliis justae staturae hominibus generantur.  Qualis vero ea Gens sit, ex qua ista Naturae Ludibria tanta copia proveniant, Vossium docere oportelat, quia Pumiliones Pumiles alios non gignunt, sed plerunque steriles sunt, experientia teste; ut plane non opus habuerunt Doctores Talmudici Nanorum matrimonia prohibere, ne Digitales ex iis nascerentur.  Ludolphus it may be is a little too strict with Vossius for calling them Nani; he may only mean a sort