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from allothcrs, by the large Fontanell, or Open in the Moleof the Headjthat remains Membranous, and never becomes, like the rest os the Scull, aBony Substance, And that they cannot poslibly arrive at Manhood isplain ;for this Monstrous and nnequal Growth, or rather swelling os their Heads,Meeting with no Check, bat still emy Day increasing upon them, when itarrives to such a certain Degree, that its extravagant Dimensions become ir*reconcileable with the Natural Functions'of the Body, the Oeconomia Animalismust inevitably sink under the Pressure of so great a Load, and the wholeMachine tend to its Dissolution, as not bei ng able to bear any longer withso highly Morbid a Disposition , in so principal, and so extreamly necessarya patt to Life as the Brain, the fountain of ali Spirit, Sense, and Motion.

I sliall not deny, but by one Accident or other, some Disproportion bH-tween the Head and the rest of the Body, in such as are grown up to thecompleat Stature of Man, does sometimes happen. But a Disproportion ofthis kind, however remarkable to the Eye and unscemly, is never so extra-ordinary as to be very considerable in it*s self. For I find the Circumfe-rence of a Man’s Head of a moderate, that is the most common Size, is usu-ally about 22 Inches, and if we chance to sce one of2$ or 2 6 on a Man ofOrdinary Height, which ccrtainly is very rare, it appears large and remark-able i but fliould there be found a head still bigger, so as to be 28 or 29 Inchesin Ambit, (which I am apt to think, for the Reasons above mentioned, hasscaree or ever happened, unleß where the Proportion of the other parts of theBody were such as necessarily required it) such a one, I sey, would be reallywonderful, and counted Monstrous. Yet the Circumserence of the Head*of which this large Fore-head Bone was a part, so far exceeded the largestof these Measores, that, as I computed it’s Dimensions, when ’twas entireand covered with the Hairy Scalp, it was about 44 Inches round; andtherefore must have had a Body belonging to it, that bore a proper Con-formity to this its spacious Circumserence.

Nor do I apprehend so great a Stature as this in a Humane Body, tho’ itbe indeed extraordinary, any way absurd or repugnant to the Course of Na-ture ; but rather, if duely weighed, very conformable to a certain AnomalousMethod, if I may so call it, that she apparently affects in the producingmost of her Works. Thus we cannot but observe in the Vegetable King-dom, that some are of the Dwarf kind, while others arise to 16 stupendiousa Growth, that they more than double the Bulk even of such as are esteem'dlarge in the fame Tribe. Several Examples of such hlce Gigantick Oaks, andother sorts ofexceeding vast Trees, may be seen Registred by Mr. E-veljn. Sylva , cAndamongst Animals, if we compare that little low Race of Horscs from theIste of Man, usually call’d Manks Horscs, to that large Breed they have inNo r tba>»l>tonfiiire in Englands or in the Bijhoprick. of Lcige in Fland.rs , wemay properly enough eueem these in comparilbn with thole, a sorr of Gigan-tick Horses. Or, if the Vifh Wolf-Dog , which is of the Grey-Hound kind,and of so beautiful and large a Makc, that for its curious Form, as well asgoodly Sixe, it far fur passes all other Dogs of the Creati on, be compared to

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