Note d — BOOK IV.
Reading edition
Blemmyis traduntur capita abesse, Ore & Oculis pectori affixis. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 8. Occidentem versus quosdam sine cervice Oculos in humeris habentes. Ib. l. 7. c. 2. From these, and other such like Fables, in this last cited Chapter of Pliny, no doubt our famous Romancer Sir J. Mandevile, had his Romnantick Stories related in his Travels.