Note 29 — Chapter X · THE TORRENT
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‘Ils sont si robustes, dit le traducteur de l’Histoire des Voyages, que dix hommes ne suffiroient pas pour les arrêter.’—Rousseau.
‘The oran outang is prodigiously strong.’—Ancient Metaphysics, vol. iv. p. 51; vol. v. p. 4.
‘I have heard the natives say, he can throw down a palm-tree, by his amazing strength, to come at the wine.’—Letter of a Bristol Merchant in a note to the Origin and Progress of Language, book ii. chap. 4.