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Pigmies, Pompeian pictures of, 15, 17-19; described by Pliny, 17; uses of, 18.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Belonging to the same century is the chapter "Of Pigmies" in Sir Thomas Browne's "Vulgar Errors," wherein he makes several very interesting statements, although he argues from the opposite side.

From Fians, Fairies and Picts by MacRitchie, David

Some writers trace a resemblance between this Mohammedan legend and the story of the "Pigmies and the Cranes."

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

He looks like a colonel of the Pigmies horse, or one of these motions in a great antique clock; he would shew well upon a haberdasher's stall, at a corner shop, rarely.

From Every Man out of His Humour by Jonson, Ben

At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south.

From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward