pygmies, which Pliny, Aulus Gellius, and Strabo ſay, were three ſpithames in height; or, as Pliny expreiies it, "ternos dodrantes non excedenteſ;" and Aulus Gellius, "non longiores eſſe quam pedes duos et quadrantem."
Euſtathius, as Mr. Barré alledges, ſays of theſe people, that they were οὐδὲ πηχυαῖος τὸ μέγεθος, not of a cubit's ſize; and then reckoning the cubit as a foot only, he ſtill farther reduces the ſize of theſe little folks. But I think Euſtathius meant no more than to repreſent in ſtrong terms the diminutive ſize of the pygmies, and not to aſſign to them any determinate proportion. Euſtathius had before obſerved, that the δῶρον, or four fingers breadth, was one third of the ſpithame; and of courſe, that two ſpithames made a πῆχυς, or foot and a half.
Again, Mr. Barré, taking it for granted that the Greek cubit was equal to the Roman foot, adds, that of courſe 600 Greek feet were equal to 400 Roman feet; and that there muſt be 12½ Olympic ſtadia to make up the mile: and as the Pythic ſtadium was greater by 25, it Inuit follow, that ſeven and a half of the latter would be required to make up the mile; and that 7500 Greek feet, equal to 5000 Greek cubits, or 5000 Roman feet, would be equal to a Pythic Radium.
But Herodotus[1] and Diodorus[2], neither of whom reckoned by the Pythic ſtadium, aſſign 3600 ſtadia for the circumference of the
