458 M E M O I R S e/^ the 
Fi^. 18. reprefents the gigantic fore-bead bone, exprefled in 
the fame pofture with the former, and drawn exaftly to the fame 
proportion 3 abode \s the coronal future, in fome places a little 
worn and defaced j c the place where the coronal and fagittal 
fjtures meet; /the part where the bones of the nofe v/ere fiften- 
ed • gg the upper part of the orbits or the eyes ; ^ ^ the two 
Foramina for the nerves that pafs into the mufcles of the eye- 
brows and frontal mufcle^ the meafure round the ambit of the 
coronal future from ^ to <? was about 21 inches j from <;, where 
the lagittal and coronal futures meet, to/, where the bones of the 
Tiofe are fallened, 9 fo inches j from ^, by drawing a tranfverle 
line a-crols the fore-head to ^ 12 fo inches 5 the thickneis of the 
bone, from one table to the other, about \ an inch. 
Fig. 19. fhews the iniide of the fame gigantic bone, drawn 
likewife in the fame proportion ; k k the thicknefs of the bone 5 
/ the fliarp and high procefs of the Os Cribrofumy called 'Crifta 
Gain, 
By comparing thefe figures it is evident what an exad conformity 
there is in every particular between this large bone, and the like 
bone in a man of an ordinary height, and that they differ no ways 
but in magnitude 3 and as to the difference o.^ fize, the dimenfions 
of the larger were more than double thofe of the fmaller ; whence 
it follows, that this large Os Frontis was above twice as big every 
way as a common bone of that fort in a full grown man 5 ;^nd ar- 
guing from the proportion that the fame bone in other men bears 
to their height, it muft follow, that the man to whom thiv Os 
Frontis belonged was more than twice the height that men ufu- 
ally are of, according to the common courie of nature ; and let- 
ting down, as the mod moderate computation, but 5 \ feet for 
the height of a man, he to whom this bone belonged, mull have 
been more than 1 1 or 1 2 foot high : It cannot reasonably be lup- 
[)ofcd, that a man of an ordinary lize and Itature could have had 
ilich an exceedrng large head; for the Dr. conceives he could not 
poflibly fubfifl, whilft fo ponderous and excefTive a mafs of bone 
as this (cull, with all that quantity of brain requifire to fill its 
fpacious cavity, was growing 5 much lefs continue lo long alive, 
cs to come to maturity of years, to which it is certain this perfon 
tnuft have arrived, by the great thicknefs and loiidity of this 
bone, as well as its large fize ; and tho' it is true, that lometimes 
from obftru61:ions, or other morbific caufes, our glands and fofter 
Vifcera are fo unequally nourifhed, as to grow to an immenfe 
fize ; yet iuch a preternatural excels of growth in a hard and 
bony part, the Dr. does not think, has ever yet been obferved ; 
and 
