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ty Dr. Moiy- 2. In theYear 1682. I säw and measur’d Edmund Mahne at Dublin -, Hisneux.n. 161 f. JT a ther, though a proper Man, ro way remarkable for his height, but h'iKMother was of a more than ordinary low Srature: When he stoodonthebare Ground with hisShoesoff, hemeasiired füll 7 Foot 7 Inches inheighr;that is, about 2 Foot taller than a Man of a coramon Size.

^ H I. I have measured a Prodigious large Os Frontis , which is rescrv’d

Tho" ri Moiyneu)t. in the Medicine Sebool at Leyden. It is entire, and differs in no Respectsu. i<8. p. 880. f rom that of a Man, but in its largenefs; and since there’s no Creature, espe-cially of the larger fort, that has this Bone at ali refembling ours ■ there’s notthe least Question to be made, but this formerly belong’d to a Man, andthat ofa molt extravagant Size. From its juncture with theNafal Pones, tothe place where the Sutura Sagittalis terminated, the Convex way, 'twas 9Inches , 0 ; transverfly from side to side, stili measuring the Convex way,'twas12Inches A; in thicknefs, about j Inch. I find ordinary Sculls scarce an-farer it in half Proportion ; being onc with another about 4, Inches long,

6 broad, and \ thick. So that lüpposing this Bone bore the fame Proporti-on to his Stature, which the fame in other Men does totheirs, the Man towhom this Bone belong’d rauft have been 11 or 12 Foot hjgh. Dr. Drehn -court, the present Professor of Anatomy , told me, That he found it therewhen he first came into that place, but never could learn who gave it, whereit was found, or whence it came.

That there are forne whose Heads are very large in proportion to their Bo-dies cannot be deny'd ; yetgenerally such Sculls want in thicknefs, fas thisdoes not,) are ili shaped, and not proportionable; and moreover, Iam per-suaded there never yet was an Instance of any Head, which by a praster-natiiral Growth, came the least nigh this for Bulk. 'tu*o ” m of^neux 2. I am not ignorant, that feveral Authors (as Tbo. Fazxllus, Athan.

•>^6i.p lTy UX Kircber, Gajfar Shottus, andothers) both Andern &nd Modern, have takenPains to Register Accounts, not of Gigantick Bones only, but of intire Bodiesofvastly Gigantick Men, found buried under ground, orin thehollowCa-verns of Mountains: But tlitse Relations are commonly taken up by Hcar--say only, and so ili attested, that they deferve but very little Credit. Andtho’ there is hardty any «onsiderable Collectiv« of Natural Curiosities, or aPrinred Description of a Mufaum, extanr, where forne part or other of aGiantisnotto be met with, yet 1 am much of the fame Opinipn, as tomostof these Gigmtick Remains, with the Historian Suetonius Tranquillus, whosäys of Augußus Casar, that zs£des suas non tam StatuarumTabularumque hi-llarum Ornatu, quam Rebus vetustate ac Raritate notabilibus, excoluit ; qualiasunt Capreis immanium Billuarum Far arumque Membra pragrandia, qua di-cuntur Gigantum OJJa. And certainly, mostof pretended Gianrs remains inour Days, suchl meanas are truly Bone, (for forne are onty Natural Petri-fications, and Lapides fui Generis, accidentally so figur’d as to resen\ble thisor that Part of a Man) were Bones belonging to forae of the biggest Qua-drupeds, as Elephants, or forne of the largest sort of Fifhes of the Wbalekind, called by Pl.ny as well as Suetonius, Bellua and Bellua Marina. AndI am perfuaded,.. that the large. Too’.h, mentioncd by 0 /. Wermuts, and Fi-... ‘ gurcd:

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