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BAKERS, BUTCHERS, &C. PUNISHES.

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OF A PIGMY RACE OF MEN IN THE ISLAND OF MADA-
GASCAR.
The Abbe Rochon in his justly celebrated Voyage a Ma-
dagascar, published about eight years since, asserts that
he was a resident among these Lilliputian race of people
some time. He says they entirely confine themselves
to the middle region of the island. The common size of
the men, he says, is three feet five, by exact measure-
ment; and that the ladies are some inches shorter.—
They are possessed of much wit and intellect, and are
the boldest and most active warriors on the island. To
accommodate this fairy race of mortals, the Abbe adds,
that the plants and the vegetables growing on the moun-
tains inhabited by these people, are naturally dwarfs, al-
so—but he has unaccountably forgotten to state, whe-
ther the mountains are dwarfs as well; therefore, says
his translator, we may naturally conclude that these
mountains are about the size of the artificial knolls in
our English pleasure gardens.

WHIMSICAL MANNER OF PUNISHING BAKERS, BUTCHERS,
$C. AT GRAND CAIRO.
If a baker sells short weight, or bad bread, and is taken
in the fact by the inquest (who go about daily to in-
spect provisions, and examine weights and measures)
for the first offence, the inquest gives all the bread that
they find in his shop to the poor, and then the offender
is nailed to his own door, sometimes by one ear, and
sometimes by both, for the space of twelve hours. For
the second offence, his bread is distributed as aforesaid,
and