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Mermaids Not Fabulous,
Ocean , I have not the least doubt , though they appear to be but a rare animal . As to men with one leg , one eye , or two eyes in their breast , whether they are yet anywhere to be founds I cannot say . But , if it were certain that they no longer existed , it would not from thence follow that they never existed ; for we are sure that there are whole species of animals , which were once in certain
countries , but are not now to be found there , such as Wolves in Britain . And it is very likely those very extraordinary men in India and Africa , of whom antient authors speak , being , as is probable , but few in number , and considered as monsters by the other men in those countries , would be destroyed or exterminated by them * as it is likely the Troglodytes in Africa where , who , as Herodotus says , where hunted by the Garamantes ( an African nation ) , as if
they had been while beasts * . Other men , of the same monstrous appearance , have been , 1 am persuaded , destroyed in the same way , such as men with the heads of dogs , who have not been seen by any modern traveller , but of whom so many ancient authors speak , that I can hardly doubt of their having once existed * though they are not now to be found f .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Mermaids Not Fabulous,
Ocean , I have not the least doubt , though they appear to be but a rare animal . As to men with one leg , one eye , or two eyes in their breast , whether they are yet anywhere to be founds I cannot say . But , if it were certain that they no longer existed , it would not from thence follow that they never existed ; for we are sure that there are whole species of animals , which were once in certain
countries , but are not now to be found there , such as Wolves in Britain . And it is very likely those very extraordinary men in India and Africa , of whom antient authors speak , being , as is probable , but few in number , and considered as monsters by the other men in those countries , would be destroyed or exterminated by them * as it is likely the Troglodytes in Africa where , who , as Herodotus says , where hunted by the Garamantes ( an African nation ) , as if
they had been while beasts * . Other men , of the same monstrous appearance , have been , 1 am persuaded , destroyed in the same way , such as men with the heads of dogs , who have not been seen by any modern traveller , but of whom so many ancient authors speak , that I can hardly doubt of their having once existed * though they are not now to be found f .