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in) presented itself to their view, which was the body of a man of very large 
stature upon the ledge of the rock, and covered over by a natural tomb, an arch of 
the same rock, He lay at his length, I think, upon his back with his spear by 
his side. One of them ventured to touch the body of this once mighty man, and 
all sunk down in dust. As a strange and acceptable curiosity, the men sought for 
a basket and carried all the bones and skull to the master, Mr. George White, 
New Wear. The skull, I have heard, was given to Captain Scudamore, of Kent- 
church, always a most friendly countenancer of Mr. White, to whom he sold his 
woods near Kentchurch, and most cordially wished success. ”*Tis said the wooden 
part of the spear time had mouldered into dust, but the head, which was of brass, 
was carried down to the master. If the skull was given with the bones to the 
_ surgeon, then it must be sent back from Kentchurch. A. - ig 
‘‘The common account that passeth, of the length of the longest bone of 
the middle finger and the bones of the leg and thigh, some will judge must needs be 
magnified when reported to be twice the length of the same bones of a common 
man, that is 5 feet 8 or 10 inches, which was about the stature of Mr. George 
White. * * * * * * * * * * 
‘* Gibson, in his third and last edition of Camden’s Britannia, has recorded it 
that the length of all the joints was twice the length of others of this age. If so, 
the man must be 11 or 12 feet. 
“Mrs. Henrietta Gwillim, upon mention of these things, said she had often 
and always heard it reported that the hip-bone was the full length of her grand- 
father’s, Captain George Gwilliam’s, of Whitchurch, leg and thigh bones; that 
she had seen it and took the measure—and the captain was a tall lusty gentleman 
nearly six feet high.” 
It is to be observed here that the corroboration really contradicts the state- 
ment which it was intended to establish. If the hip-bone were only equal to that 
of a man six feet high, it is obvious that it could not have belonged toa man of 
double that stature, nor could the longest joint of the middle finger have been 
‘twice the length ” of that of Mr. White. 
A Mrs. Mary Hopkins and her father, John Llewellin, are also cited as 
corroborating the story of the discovery, and the latter is stated to have been 
actually present with the workmen when the body was discovered. They, how- 
ever, give quite a different version to that attributed to Mr. White. According to 
them the body was found in a search for hidden treasure supposed to be buried in 
King Arthur’s Hall. In the position of the body, its crumbling to dust, and the 
gigantic size of the bones, Llewellin fully corroborates Mr. White’s account. 
Heath’s narrative goes on to forestall the natural inquiry as to what became 
of these gigantic bones, by stating that ‘ the surgeon was intentionally sailing to 
Jamaica when the ship was cast away, and himself and the bones buried in the 
sea.” Some “further testimony ” which he subjoins explains the disappearance 
of the bones a little more fully, as follows :—‘‘ For some time the bones lay 
exposed on the wall near Mr, White’s house, being placed there by him to prevent 
