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or have falfified willingly, for the fame reafon that Alexander is faid 

 to have buried armour of a monftrous fize fomewhere in India, in 

 order to perfuade pofterity that the men before their time were 

 giants. 



Whether this be really the cafe, we fhall examine in the next 

 Chapter. 



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