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convinced from my own experience, that they 

 are not at all acquainted with it. 



I MET with people here who maintained that 

 giants had formerly lived in thefe parts, and the 

 following particulars confirmed them in this opi- 

 nion. A few years ago fome people digging in 

 the ground, met with a grave which contained hu- 

 man bones of an aftonifhingfize. TheTztf/tf isfaid 

 to have been fourteen feet long, and the osfemoris 

 to have meafured as much. The teeth are like- 

 wife faid to have been of a fize proportioned to 

 the reft. But more bones of this kind have not 

 yet been found. Perfons Hulled 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 na- 

 tural curiofities. Among the favages, in the 

 neighbourhood of the place where the bones were 

 found, there is an account handed down through 

 many generations from fathers to children, that 

 in this neighbourhood, on the banks of a river, 

 there lived a very tall and ftrong man, in ancient 

 times, who carried the people over the river on his 

 back, and waded in the water, though it was ve- 

 ry deep. Every body to whom he did this fer- 

 vice gave him fome maize, fome {kins of ani- 

 mals, or the like. In fine, he got his liveli- 

 hood by this means, and was as it were the ferry- 

 man of thofe who wanted to pafs the river. 



THE foil here confifts for the greateft 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 appearance the ground was 

 none of the beft 3 and this conje&ure was verifi- 

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