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Pigmean Race

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014.

In his Natural History 7. 26, Pliny locates the land of the Pygmies in the mountains beyond the source of the Ganges.
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