But
had he given us either a figure of it, or a more particular Description,
it had been a far greater Satisfaction.
[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_.
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