462 ME M O I R S of fbe 
From thefe warrantable hiftories, and this particular bone be- 
fore us, we may clearly deduce, that there have been in nature 
human bodies 11 or 12 foot high, which lurpaffes the flature of 
the talleft giants mentioned in holy writ j for the height o^Goliah 
of G/atJOf is exprefly faid I. Sam. xvii. 4. to be but 6 cubits and 
afpan^ and taking a cubit in the moft ufual acceptation, for a 
foot and a half, his ftature will not amount to above 9 foot 9 in- 
ches: Indeed we may reafonably conclude, that O.^ the king of 
^afian muft have confiderably exceeded Goliah in height, if we 
make an eftimate of his ftature by the dimenflons of his bed- 
ftead, which is faid to have been kept as a memorial of him at 
Rabbatb of the children of Avimon^ and to have been 9 cubits 
in length, ^eut. iii. 2 : But then we cannot imagine, but that his 
bed muft of necefhty have been much longer than his body 5 and 
the leaft allowance we can make for the overplus, is thefpace of 
9 inches above his head, and as much below his feet, by which 
diftin6^ion, it will follow he was not above 12 foot high 5 much 
of the fame ftandard with this giant before us. 
JForms in Sheep's Liver s^ Gnats and Animakula in the Ex- 
crements of Frogs y by M. Anthony van Leewenhoek. Phil. 
Tranf. N°2(Ji. p. 509. 
WH E N fheep have drank water, wherein thefe animalcules 
were, they are carried with their food out of the ftomach 
into the beginning of the guts, where the gall-bladder empties 
itfelf, and being pleafed with the tafte of gall, they fwim againft 
it into the bladder itfelf, and from thence go into the veflels, 
(like veins and arteries) of the gall; for M. LeeiJOenhoek having 
fearched the liver of a fheep, in the veffels whereof were feveral 
animalcules andopen'd a nodous part, he took out one of them, 
which was twice as long in the vein and indifferently irnall 5 to 
difcover, if poffible, the faid Animakula in the water, M. Lee- 
ivenhoek went in the latter end of Aiigtifi into feveral pafture 
grounds, where fheep fed that were troubled with thefe dileafes, 
and there out of the low ditches he took up fome water in a clear 
glafs, which he examined with a more than ordinary magnifying 
glafs, and obferved feveral forts of animalcules iwimmingtherein^ 
the grcateft fort were thofe that produce gnats, which have flings, 
wherewith they annoy both man and beail5 one fort of the ani- 
malcules generally funk to the bottom, as foon as they cealed to 
move thcii- bodies, and when in moving they came to touch the 
lurface of the water with any prominent part, then their heads 
hung down and they remained thus upon the lurface 3 the lecond 
fort 
