In his letter, itself adorned by fictional episodes, Coyer referred to Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis,4 who ".by looking to find the reason why dwarfs and giants are only to be found near the poles, adventured this hypothesis: '.those races of giants and dwarfs would have settled there, either because the climate suited them, or more probably because they have been pushed into these latitudes by other men who feared the giants and despised the dwarfs" Coyer, 1767.
2 aventuró esta hipótesis: 'Esas razas de gigantes y enanos se habrían instalado allí, ya sea porque el clima les acomodó o, más probablemente, porque fueron empujados a esas latitudes por otros hombres que temen a los gigantes y desprecian a los enanos'" Coyer, 1767.