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we may add, that the proportion of 25 to 24 is no extravagant or improbable exceſs of ſtature above that of ordinary men, for one ſo celebrated for ſtrength, activity, and other athletic exerciſes, as Hercules is reported to have been.
Suppoſing the height of an ordinary man to be five feet ten inches, Engliſh meaſure, the addition of a 24th part will make that of Hercules to have been rather under ſix feet and one inch, which is no extraordinary height, though ſuperior to the common ſtandard of mankind.
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