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aftonifhing fize. The Tibia is faid to have 

 been fourteen feet long, and the os femoris 

 to have meafured as much. The teeth are 

 likewife faid to have been of a fize propor- 

 tioned to the reft. But more bones of this 

 kind have not yet been found. Perfons 

 fkilled in anatomy, who have feen thefe 

 bones, have declared that they were human 

 bones. One of the teeth has been fent to 

 Hamburgh, to a perfon who collected natu- 

 ral curiojities. Among the iavages, in the 

 neighbourhood of the place where the bones 

 were found, there is an account handed 

 down through many generations from fa- 

 thers to children, that in this neighbour- 

 hood, on the banks of a river, there lived 

 a very tall and ftrong man, in ancient 

 times, who carried the people over the ri- 

 ver on his back, and waded in the water, 

 though it was very deep. Every body to 

 whom he did this fervice gave him fome 

 maize, fome fkins of animals, or the like. 

 In fine he got his livelyhood by this means, 

 and was as it were the ferryman of thofe 

 who wanted to pafs the river. 



The foil here confifts for the greatefl 

 part of fand, which is more or lefs mixed 

 with clay. Both the fand and the clay, are 

 of the colour of pale bricks. To judge by 



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