A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients

"HAVING had the Opportunity of Dissecting this remarkable Creature, which not only in the outward Shape of the Body, but likewise in the structure of many of the Inward Parts, so nearly resembles a Man, as plainly appears by the Anatomy I have here given of it, it suggested the Thought to me, whether this sort of Animal, might not give the Foundation to the Stories of the Pygmies?"