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onable to bis Height: He was Born at Schoonhcven in Hodand, of Parents ofan ordinary Stature j and Mr. Ray mentions, Thathe siw ihisvery Man atBruges in Flanders. J». Goroprn Becanm fays, he saw a Youih almost 9 Pont 0nhigh, a Man near 10 Foot, and a Woman that was quite 10 Foot in p. ai^.ai”. 'height. Pliny the Naturalist speaks of scveral Men in his Age, much of Nar. Hat. 17. e.the sime Height, or something Tallcr, than thosc mentioned by Becanus.

And it is not improbable, that where both the Soil and Climate ccncur,and are Naturally difposed to produce Plan ts, Fruits, and several Kind ofAnimal«, of amuch larger Bulk than any our Countries afford, soch as theOstridges and Cunters among Birds; the largest Crocodiles, the MooseDeer, the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Hippopotamus, &c. amongQuadrupeds; In those Parts of the World, 1 siy, where such like vast Crea-tu res are met wirh, ’tis not unlikely that humane Animals may also be some-times found of a much greater Size than Hny here among us. Thus Andreas ßescript. os a - .Tbevetj theFamous Voyager, teils us, That being himsclf on the Coast of menca,i i7,c ‘ uAfrick , in the Territory of Argum , so r 3 Weeks together, he chanced tomeet with a Rieh Spants) Merchant, who had some while before sufferedShipwrack there by a Storm, yet had luckily siv'd aCoffer, wherein he hadcarefully preserv’d the Scull and Bones of an American Giant, he had broughtalong with him from that Country; who was 11 Foot and 5 Inches inHeight, and Dy’d in the Year 1559. These Bones he fhewed to M. The-< vet , who was so curious, thathe took the Measüresof the most Principal ofthem, as followsj Bones of the Legs measored füll 3 Foot 4 Inches inlength, and the Scull was 3 Foot 1 Inch about. Which Circumference, Iobserve, is exactly proportionalste to the length of the Legs, and if we makean allowance for the Hair and Skin that covered the Scull when he was alive,it falls very little Ihort of the Dimensions we have before set down, in Compu-ting tjae Size of our Giant’s Head when it was enfire.

And this brings into my Thoughts, as if it were not unlikely, that thislarge Os Wrontis we have deserib’d, might about 70 or 80 Years ago (Torit seemsfrefh, and is still solid and ponderous, so that it cannot be very old)have been brought into Europe by some of theTrading Holländers , as a pro-per Sample of some huge Gigantick Man. met with in some of their Voy-agts into America. But this is only Conjecture ; and indeed, it does not Im-port much whether we discover the true Original of it or no.

From these Warrantable Historie?, and this Particular Bone before us asa fair Specimen, we may clearly deduce, that there have been in Nature Hu-mane Bodies 11 and 12 Foot high ; which equals, if not sorpafles the Statureof the Tallese Giant mentioned in Holy Writ. For the Height of Goliah of ,Sam - J 7 - ■>Gath is siid exprefly to be but 6 Cubits and a Span ; and taking a Cubit, inthe most vulgär and usoal Acceptation, for a Foot and a half, his Stature willror amount to above 9 Foot 9 Inches. Indeed we may reasonably conclude,that Og the King of Hasan must have considerably exceeded Goliah inHeight, if we make anestimateof his Stature by the Dimensions which aregivenofhis Bed stead, which is siid to have been kept as a Memorial ofhim at Rabbathof the CbiUrenof Ammern^ and to have been 9 Cubiti in length ; Deut..3.1,..

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