Note 443 — ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES.

The meaning of this passage is ambiguous. I have followed Coray, who gives some very interesting annotations on it. He translates these words, “Ils sont naturellement d’une complexion lâche et trapus; premièrement, parceque dans leur enfance ils ne sont point emmaillotés, non plus que les Ægyptiens.” Clifton has given nearly the same meaning of the passage: “Their fluidness and breadth proceed first from their neglect of bandages, as in Egypt.” Littré, on the other hand, appears to give a different interpretation of the passage: “D’abord parceque on ne les emmaillotte pas, comme en Egypte.”